Raw LLM Responses

I agree with some things you are saying and disagree with other things. It sounds like you are implying the purpose of jobs is simply to give people work—to keep people employed for employment's sake. I think that the purpose of jobs is to address problems and meet the needs of a community or society. If a particular job can be replaced by a robot to better fit that need, I welcome it. If a robot can truly do a job better than a human, let the robot do the job. I completely agree that given the potential scope of how much AI could replace jobs (and how quickly it might be able to do so), it likely will have devastating consequences if we don't properly prepare for it. I think your ideas of a 32-hour work week, required shares for workers (though that wouldn't help workers who are not employees of publicly traded companies), and a robot tax are great ideas. "Expanding the concept of employee ownership" sounds a bit nebulous to me as a prescription for what should be done, so I would like to hear more about what you mean by that, and exactly what actions and policies would be associated with it. Workers electing 45% of their board members sounds good, but I am reluctant to have a strong opinion on it. But while I respect the need for safeguards, I also think we need a cultural vision of how people will still be needed if and when machines do most of the labor. I think a future in which robots can accomplish many of the tasks we have today has the potential of vastly improving our communities, our country, and the world. I do agree with you that work is an important part of being human. I agree that AI could easily have a dehumanizing impact on people and alter our relationships to each other and the nature of society itself. But I think that is a hint of what the new jobs in an AI driven world should be: solving the problems of community and meeting the needs of society: measuring the value of human work less so by productivity and more so by the contributions to strengthening our social bonds. The bulk of what we will need in this AI future (and honestly, we desperately need even now) is people creating activities, events, and spaces that give the opportunity for people to enjoy interacting with others. Spaces and activities more enticing than a secluded life scrolling through AI slop content. These would be jobs that could never be replaced by AI because the entire purpose of these jobs is the human interaction. Let me give an example. I live in a community that takes great pride in its support of the arts, so I have had the privilege of living most of my life in an area where there often many events to attend. One that I personally have attached to over the years is community theatre. Often people who participate in community theatre never get paid. The work is entirely voluntary, and there are many jobs that need to get done aside from acting including directing, set design and construction, lighting design, audio design, administration, finances, box office, ushering, and stagehands. The theatre companies are often 501(c)3 non-profit organizations. People do this for the love of theatre, because they believe in the importance of it. Over the years, I have seen friendships form. I have seen lovers meet. I have seen people who have never seen a play before get blown away—amazed that they didn't know something like this was in their community, sometimes even wanting to later get involved, too. I have seen that life happens here. These are the kinds of moments that our society needs more of and therefore this is what the jobs of the future should be working to build. Imagine with me a future in which we come to appreciate the true value of spaces like these for building bonds between people and between people and their communities. Spaces like theatre, live music, festivals, fairs, celebrations, marathons, sports, larping, escape rooms, restaurants, anything whose purpose is to create a space where people meet one another. I think that is the most valuable good we will need in a world where AI might provide most of everything else. AI might take our current jobs, but it can never replace human connection. I imagine some reading this might not see the value that I see in these types of activities, particularly considering that on local levels they have never been as lucrative as the jobs AI may soon be replacing. But I ask you to consider: if your reason to protect people from losing their jobs to AI is for the sake of just making sure people have a job, then what does it matter which job they have so long as they do have a job? And they can have any job, why not recognize the value of bringing people together and allocate funds to encourage people to help build these spaces? There are many things to fear about the coming ramifications of AI, but there is also a great opportunity to redirect human effort toward building stronger bonds with one another. A future in which the most meaningful work we do is not as cogs in systems that only care about the bottom line, but as champions for the well-being of those around us. Thank you to anyone who actually read all this!