What if we move? All our work to AI?

We can compare the threat that AI poses to society to the influence of slavery on the Roman Empire. Sometimes people say that slavery destroyed Roman civilization. When the Romans transferred all duties and work to slaves, they became weak and lazy. That caused a situation where, in the case. There, Rome was under threat; there were no people. With the ability to fight against the threat that came in the form of Attila. When Attila and his Huns robbed. 

The city of Rome, all glory was gone. People noticed that Rome was the only city on the map. And that caused loss of respect. The reason. The reason the Roman Empire lost was that. It didn’t create anything new. It always used the same tactics. That caused the situation. The enemies of Rome knew what the Romans would do next. And they knew how to react to that thing. In the same way. If we give all the work. Into the hands of robots. And learn to use only the answers that the AI gives. We are going into the same position. Where the Romans went when they turned lazy. We will face a situation where nobody does anything. People just give orders to the AI. And that thing makes everything for humans.

What is gained in quantity is lost in accuracy. Things like dictionary books. They involve lots of topics. But information about each topic is limited.  When we want deep knowledge about things like how to make a computer program, we need a more precise dictionary. We need a data source about programming, which means the source involves information about fewer topics, but it involves information on how to create something. 

There are two ways. To measure productivity. 

1) We can simply calculate the number of products. That is a quantitative way to determine effectiveness. This is the simplest way to determine effectiveness. We can calculate how many reports the worker. Or some other actor makes during the working day. This is the easiest way to determine effectiveness. The number of reports. It is a good way to measure. The effectiveness of a worker. But. Those reports can only be scratching the surface. They might be like some encyclopedia. There is a lot of information. Or lots of topics. But there are a few details about those things. We couldn’t make things. Like computer programs. Or building houses if we only have common encyclopedias. We need deeper knowledge. About things that we should make when we want to make those things. The encyclopedia involves. A lot of surface data. About many things. 

2) We can see the quality of the product. This means a qualitative way to determine effectiveness. Deep information and deep knowledge are the qualitative ways to determine effectiveness. But then. We face another problem. How to determine deep knowledge? How can we say? Does that report involve deep knowledge? We can determine. The qualitative way to determine effectiveness. In programming. As the number of lines that pass the tests. But in things like regular reports or novels, we must ask, what makes some texts more qualitative than others? Is it that somebody clicks the link? 

The problem is that the AI recycles information. It will not make anything new. The final part of the Roman decay was a situation. Where Romans who loved Greece and philosophy started to read only texts written by the Greek philosophers. They didn’t even try to create their own texts. Except for some different people, like Marcus Aurelius. Bu. If we deliver all our work to the AI. We are choosing a path that is not good. In that case. People just lie. At home. Maybe that thing seems easy. But what if we turn our lives. Too easy? What if we lose our skills to read and write? We can simply give orders to AI, and it generates texts for us. Maybe. Most of those texts please readers. But do they improve our skills? To write and produce texts? When we talk about things. 

Like giving an ability to think to the AI. We always forget a couple of things. First thing is that. The AI is a good tool. To follow things. Like stock marketing or a certain vehicle in traffic. The AI is the only thing that can sort and process large data masses. And then if we follow the orders that the AI gives. We deliver our decision to AI. That brings new and complicated questions. The complicated question is, what if we don’t follow the orders that AI gives? If we want to sort manually. 

The same data mass that an AI agent sorts in minutes. We would spend years in that process. We can make AI to create texts. And that makes us effective. But. There is a price. For that effective work. We give orders to AI that creates lots of documents. But that doesn’t mean that we must read a single one of them. We can say that the situation is similar if we ask lots of questions. And then nobody answers.  

Unemployment is one of the biggest problems.

 

The role of the people in society is almost. Act as taxpayers. And the fact is that. The robots that replace humans leave many people unemployed. People. Those who did mechanical work. And especially simple mechanical work is going to lose its jobs. The AI removes junior- and trainee degree works from the ICT sector. And that means. That. We must use the AI more than ever before. The AI will kill. Basic coders’ work. And that binds us more and more to that technology. 

Robots can act as street cleaners. They can clean windows. Or maybe futuristic houses have a windshield washer that washes every window by pressing a button. The system conducts water on the windows. And then. The whippet that is installed in window frames will clean that window.  The system requires as little work as possible. And people must only check those whippers. 

The thing that makes unemployment a problem. Are bad social conditions. Those things cause dissatisfaction.  And dissatisfaction causes rebels. When we talk. About employment and unemployment. We should tell what. Or how high or low salaries are. Those workers get from their work. The Roman slaves didn’t get salaries at all. 

The typical error in the R&D process. And innovations are that we cannot see things outside our environment. We can see bright solutions, and we can see the goal. But. We cannot see outside of our corridor. This means that. We just think. That something that we see as a possibility is really positive. Bright ideas are sometimes justified to fail. Because we see only the model. That we thought was right and the only possible. One of the biggest problems with state economic solutions is this. Those solutions were made somewhere in Ancient Greece. In those models. 

Every citizen must pay taxes. And work hard. And that model fell the Roman Empire.  The Romans started to use slaves for almost everything that they dared. Finally. Romans didn’t do anything themselves. And this made the Romans weak. And that caused a situation. The Romans couldn’t defend themselves. 

Slavery gave people time to discuss and ponder things. Or, it gave. Time for citizens. When citizens spent their time in endless parties. That opened Rome to its enemies. When we think of those slaves' position in society, they were treated as merchandise. That thing is embarrassing. And even in the best cases, the person who owned the slave had the final word on that person’s things. So, the slave is always below free people. And the slave must step away if the free man wants. That caused hate. Growing hate in society caused fear. 

The problem was that Roman laws protected only citizens. And if slave owners treat their slaves badly, people didn’t dare to give weapons into their hands. 

People discussed things, like philosophy. That caused. The question, “Why do regular people exist?” The role of ordinary people was only to pay taxes. And be quiet. In the same way. When machines were improved, people had time to rest and talk. About their conditions and their role in society. Before. Machines and the growing population left some people out of work. And that caused. The need to send them to the colonies. The social problems caused pressure in society, and the solution was that those people were forced to move to colonies. 

When people worked hard, they had no time to think about their role. The problem in the state economy is this: in modern society, the regular person’s role is almost to pay taxes. Things that guaranteed work for people were paper and steel. But then. The internet and computers made it possible to live without paper. Or it decreased the paper markets.  That caused problems with the income. Robotics is the next-generation slavery. 

The robot is a so-called ethical slave.  Work that robots should do. includes low-salaried jobs or dangerous jobs. A robot is always. Cheaper than a human. If a robot falls from a scaffolding. This thing doesn’t require any reaction. The robot is a machine. The robot doesn’t require free days. It doesn’t need a salary. In the same way as human slaves, the robot leaves people without a job. So, robots have the same effect on people as slavery had on Roman citizens. When people transfer their work to robots. That leaves people without work. 

And that makes many things complicated. The complicated thing is that in a capitalistic system. The private company's purpose is to create everything that the state needs. The state announces the competition. And then the private companies go into competition for that order. The competition has one purpose. It is to keep the merchandise. As high-quality as possible. Here, we forget one thing. The purpose of the private company is always the same. It's to bring money to their owners. The private corporation doesn’t need to employ people who are not working. This means that the private industry can fire its workers. If it gets something else. To make the work. 

For a private corporation, the worker is unavoidable evil. The ultimate capitalism. Determines the worker as the expense item. When a company doesn’t need. It's workers anymore. It fires them. And then it transfers their payments to the state. Unlike private companies. The state cannot outsource those people anywhere. And that causes payments for taxpayers and the government.