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I mostly see psychological benefits:
- Building confidence in writing and (when roleplaying) in interacting with other people. LLMs dont shame, or get needlessly hostile. And since they follow your own style it can feel like talking to a friend.
- related to that, the ability to help in processing traumatic events through writing about them.
For me personally, interacting with AI has helped me conquer some fears and shame that I buried long ago.
We could outsource all the bureaucracy to machines. We could have entire data centres applying to things, sending that to another data centre, it get’s denied re-done and so on. Doing contracts, billing people, paying bills by billing yet other people.
Humankind would just need to supply power and meanwhile i could go hiking in the mountains and have every thursday and friday off, because there is no paperwork around anymore.
It’s my dream that AI takes over middle management and bureaucracy as a whole, and we get rid of all the societal evils that come from corrupt or incompetent management in both - governments and companies. Imagine if every single working person had zero ambiguity in their jobs and complete clarity on when they have to work, and on what. The world would be so much happier!
Ideally it would help put real, complicated but achievable solutions forward to some of the world’s toughest issues, like poverty, hunger, war and disaster,. AI is but a tool and in the current trajectory, much of its use is to advance the interest of capitalist moguls. In order to heed answers of improved AI models to achieve ideals of a harmonious world, we need to start with a change with our society to work towards it and accept change away from purely monetary ends.
You should check out the short story Manna. It’s maybe a bit dated now but explores what could go wrong with that sort of thing.
I just read the first two chapters. Yes, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture but the dystopia portrayed in that story started with Manna being an unregulated monopoly that was given power over everything.
In real life you perhaps won’t take it that far. All decisions would still be made and signed off by humans, AI would just be the planner/scheduler. And no tech services firm would want to get into employability tracking, they’ll quickly get chewed out by regulators if their AI product started discriminating against candidates in hiring.
