I encourage you not to draw dishonesty inferences from people worried about job losses from AI automation, just because:
it seems like almost no other technologies stood to automate such a broad range of labour essentially simultaneously,
other innovative technologies often did face pushback from people whose jobs were threatened, and generally there have been significant social problems in the past when an economy moves away from people’s existing livelihoods (I’m thinking of e.g. coal miners in 1970s / 1980s Britain, though it’s not something I know a lot about),
even if the critique doesn’t stand up under from-first-principles scrutiny, lots of people think it’s a big deal, so if it’s a mistake it’s surely an understandable one from someone who weighs other opinions (too?) seriously.
I think it’s reasonable to argue that this worry is wrong, I just think it’s a pretty understandable opinion to hold and want to talk about, and I don’t feel like it’s compelling evidence that someone is deliberately trying to seek out arguments in order to advance a position.
I encourage you not to draw dishonesty inferences from people worried about job losses from AI automation, just because:
it seems like almost no other technologies stood to automate such a broad range of labour essentially simultaneously,
other innovative technologies often did face pushback from people whose jobs were threatened, and generally there have been significant social problems in the past when an economy moves away from people’s existing livelihoods (I’m thinking of e.g. coal miners in 1970s / 1980s Britain, though it’s not something I know a lot about),
even if the critique doesn’t stand up under from-first-principles scrutiny, lots of people think it’s a big deal, so if it’s a mistake it’s surely an understandable one from someone who weighs other opinions (too?) seriously.
I think it’s reasonable to argue that this worry is wrong, I just think it’s a pretty understandable opinion to hold and want to talk about, and I don’t feel like it’s compelling evidence that someone is deliberately trying to seek out arguments in order to advance a position.