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Not being afraid of AI is not necessarily due to the lack of empathy. It could be due to acceptance: perhaps AI will make programmers obsolete. That is fine, programming is really boring most of the time, when it's just cobbling things together. Even if it will be to the short term disadvantage of some people (including the speaker), AI taking over tedious programming tasks will make humanity richer.

It's up to us to distribute those gains back.

>>rhn_mk+(OP)
I think the issue is that our laws and economy are not structured in a way that makes it likely for those gains to be distributed back to anyone other than the ultra wealthy. Not that I expect AI to take over most programming jobs anytime soon (or ever), but if it does, it would almost certainly happen long before society manages to agree on a system to distribute those gains back in a way that benefits the average person.

>>alxlu+811
I believe that was the concern of the Luddite movement. While they failed, we can learn from them this time.