If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival

Many young people already can't afford houses and are in a terrible job market. The ladder got pulled from them a while ago and would love a revolution. Look at the people they idolise, it is either Elon (usually guys) or Mamdani. They want change.

I wouldn’t mind a society in which I don’t have to work to live happily and comfortably.

Those who can do something about it, they won't do anything as it's a power/money game for them. Those who care about it, they can barely do anything.

So, just prepare by saving money, investing and upskilling just to keep your brain sharp to figure it out when that future hits all of us.

It will be like Zardoz.

Mildly worried.

But I think most of what is useful today to teach children (to be independent, persistent, empathetic, thoughtful, etc) will still be useful in whatever future we end up in. I think even skills that may be obsolete will probably be good for training their brain, like, perhaps speaking more languages won't help because we'll all have star-trek-like communicators, but the mental flexibility won't be wasted.

I'm not sure what will happen with higher studies, my kids are small. Maybe they'll study something and by the end of university there won't be a job market for it. But that could always happen, and some paths always had more career opportunities or less.

Beyond education, I try to save some money (invest in some global index fund) and hopefully that will help. I was always going to do that anyway, it just feels a bit more necessary now.

The wealthy owners of tech companies and other businesses will keep maximizing profits, just as capitalism demands. I think my kids will be learning skilled trades instead. AI will never replace builders or electricians.

It’s just another “don’t look up” issue.

We’ve known about global warming for years and ignored it. People know and still buy bigger cars every year.

Pick up trucks are so huge now you can’t see the child you’re about to run over and they sell like hot cakes.

In surveys truck owners say they only care about occupant safety. They know about the issue for pedestrians, they just don’t care.

Same with shifting industrial production and jobs to China. We know these things are problems for the next generation. When it comes to purchases people don’t care.

Why would AI be any different?

If everyone’s out of a job, the world will figure it out

a) it's not twenty years from now, it's much less than that.

b) you cannot prevent that future, because the incentives are huge and enforcement is extremely hard, at all levels, from the superpowers to the individuals.

c) besides, imagine a world where most jobs are still being done by paid humans, all knowing that their work could be done much better and cheaper by a machine. Basically a world where your daily labour isn't really necessary but just a proof-of-work to get a monthly salary. Isn't that awful? I would rather take a pay cut on my last salary and use my time in a different way.

d) how will they make ends meet? Nobody knows. It might be a combination of everything being much cheaper and/or heavily subsidized, and some form of basic income.