AI is taking the world by storm. And there are apprehensions that the boom in AI technologies is going to take away jobs in a massive manner because all labour and work are capable of being performed by AI now. Even the most complicated tasks can be learned by AI these days within minutes.
With the advent of features such as DeepSearch, Chain of Thought, Agentic AIs, there is no job left untouched by the influence of AI. Strides in AI are naturally giving impetus to advanced robotic development as well.
So, is it true that AI is going to eat away all the jobs and, in the future, humans will not be allowed to work because they are neither better nor more efficient than AI? I have disagreements with such a thought process for a number of reasons. Firstly, no matter how smart an AI becomes, it is not going to change the basic nature of humans. Humans are curious by nature. AI cannot eliminate the creativity or the lust for knowledge of humans. In fact, my own view is that work done by humans is going to become increasingly valuable because of the natural scarcity the situation is leading us to. Secondly, when AI becomes good at all the routine tasks, it is wrong to think that humans will become lazy; rather, there is a good possibility that humans are going to become thinkers in the long run because in the future, to create, thinking would be more than enough. You think, augment your thought process with the AI, AI gives shape to your thoughts and bingo! Your product of thought is ready to be executed.
Today, the AI is learning and points us towards the relevant things. The day is not far away when agentic AIs simply start making executables and everything will become just one click away. Elon has been saying this quite often that we are soon going to enter into an age of abundance where we will not have to worry about creating basic goods and services. Mere thought about such things will suffice. As I said, human work is going to become more valuable.
In a recent podcast by Lex Fridman in which Narendra Modi was interviewed, Mr. Modi said a very relevant thing that humans will always remain superior to AI because so far, the entire existence of AI has been dependent on humans and whatever AI does is ultimately for the betterment of humans. So, in that sense, Mr. Modi argued that there is no force in the argument that AI will take over the world and would make everything irrelevant.
I second such contention. The only danger humans have is from humans themselves. Barring some catastrophic cosmic or planetary scale events, the only thing capable of destroying us is ourselves and nobody else. AI becoming sentient or having humanlike consciousness is also not going to change a thing. I mean, why would AI form unions or groups or cartels to dethrone humans? It does not need to dethrone humans. Humans can continue eating their shit, and AI will chill on some planet far away. That is what I really think about the AI-Human wars. Hopefully things will change for the better in the future and we will have more to talk about all this.