Have We Overclocked Our Humanity?
Automation: 100 vs Humanity 10 | A Very High Level Look At Our Automated, Non-Private World and Its Potential Effects
This topic could be investigated from endless angles in endless detail.
Instead of even trying to do it justice I will summarize my premise - because it impacts other posts.
We have overshot ourselves.
Everything is automated
Efficiency has hidden costs
Perhaps before outsourcing or eliminating positions roles and jobs, do a 360 systems analysis
Where do the humans fit in this new system
What will happen to them?
Would it not be a win/win to build a supervisory role for the qualified human over the automated technology, to be able to override and use common sense to avoid various system failures (whatever that may look like in a given situation)
My premise is that yes the automation and the artificial intelligence may have suddenly advanced say 100 years.
But our ability to solve the human problems and avoid job displacement, or provide merit based opportunities for displaced workers has not advanced 100 years.
If our awareness of human fallout and what to do about it advanced a decade in the same time as automation advanced 100 years - we are actually 90 years behind.
The numbers are arbitrary and I use them to suggest a principle - that whomever is making decisions at the top about these technologies and systems need to consider slowing down so that they don’t harm as many people as a result.
Probably a much more elegant way to say all of this however, here it is said.