>but by and large it helps them more than it helps the rest of us.
Correct. If you have 10,000 employees and you could replace 5,000 of them with 'computerized smarts' you shift a huge amount of liabilities. They don't require health insurance that seems to go up in cost every year. No retirement fund is needed. In theory the costs of using AI will go down over time per unit of work accomplished.
As for an individual it is difficult to see how AI will decrease our workload, increase our happiness, or increase our wealth.
Correct. If you have 10,000 employees and you could replace 5,000 of them with 'computerized smarts' you shift a huge amount of liabilities. They don't require health insurance that seems to go up in cost every year. No retirement fund is needed. In theory the costs of using AI will go down over time per unit of work accomplished.
As for an individual it is difficult to see how AI will decrease our workload, increase our happiness, or increase our wealth.