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To be honest: I'm not generally a luddite, but in this case- I think we should nip this in the bud. I can see where this is going. You can argue back and forth about whether this will make the economy grow, but that's not the point. The profits from increased productivity do not accrue to the workforce but to the owners of the capital, in the absence of concerted, organized resistance, so I would not expect the quality of life for the majority of people to improve because of this.

The question is: do you like human beings? Because there is really no job that can't be replaced, if the technology goes far enough. And then the majority of the population, or all of the population, becomes dead weight. I'm a musician; how long before an AI can write better songs than I can in a few seconds?

This is fundamentally different than past instances of technology replacing human labor, because in the past, there was always something else that humans could do that the machines still could not. Now- that may not be the case.

There is only one choice: I think we should outlaw all machine learning software, worldwide.