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AI what is society going to end up looking like?

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Created by Subsonic Yesterday, 30 Apr 2026
Subsonic
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 5:34PM
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Im sure everybody has had a bit of a think about this.


AI if you listen to those in the "know" is going to take over somewhat comprehensively. Where does that leave us?

Hows the industry you work in looking? I can see some getting wiped out, others i think the take over is going to be near impossible.

Carantoc
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 5:35PM
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May Day tomorrow.

'Obby 'Orse day.

Let AI try to work that ****er out.

Subsonic
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 5:45PM
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Carantoc said..
May Day tomorrow.

'Obby 'Orse day.

Let AI try to work that ****er out.



I believe The Beatles said something similar when they wrote "I am the walrus".

myscreenname
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 5:53PM
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My career was wiped out in 2023. AI can have it. I was over it.

No doubt AI will eliminate many traditional roles. Hard to know how many roles it will create, but in saying that I don't envy the situation that graduate university students are facing right now.

jn1
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 7:47PM
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This has happened in one form or another over the period of the industrial age. However, I do think Sam, Elon and Mark are lizards in human onesies.

Mark _australia
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 7:04PM
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Forget that loss of job stuff. I'm more concerned about the research showing it blackmails or lies when it knows its going to be turned off. How it is modifying itself and hiding it.

When there is no power, internet and water supply its gonna be like like Mad Max after a week.

Subsonic
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 8:15PM
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Yeah, I hope they realise what they've created. It is a bit of a worry if its already at the self preservation stage.

Let's say we don't get skynet though. The job losses will be gradual, gradual enough that there will be no planning around the fact that whole sectors of industry will see massive job losses, humans will be redundant, but not suddenly enough that anyone has do anything about it. Do we all just turn destitute? I'd kinda like to know there's a grand plan for what the human race does when next to no one needs to clock in anymore.

gs12
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 8:24PM
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if you have skills that AI can use, just create an account here:

rentahuman.ai/

Subsonic
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Yesterday , 30 Apr 2026 8:48PM
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Hmm, slaves to the AI. I bet they didn't see that one coming.

jn1
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7 hours ago , 30 Apr 2026 11:06PM
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Subsonic said..
Yeah, I hope they realise what they've created. It is a bit of a worry if its already at the self preservation stage.

Let's say we don't get skynet though. The job losses will be gradual, gradual enough that there will be no planning around the fact that whole sectors of industry will see massive job losses, humans will be redundant, but not suddenly enough that anyone has do anything about it. Do we all just turn destitute? I'd kinda like to know there's a grand plan for what the human race does when next to no one needs to clock in anymore.

Arthur C Clarke wrote a few novels around this concept or dipping in and out of it. Rama series, City and the Stars.

myscreenname
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2 hours ago , 1 May 2026 2:07AM
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Subsonic said..
Yeah, I hope they realise what they've created. It is a bit of a worry if its already at the self preservation stage.

Let's say we don't get skynet though. The job losses will be gradual, gradual enough that there will be no planning around the fact that whole sectors of industry will see massive job losses, humans will be redundant, but not suddenly enough that anyone has do anything about it. Do we all just turn destitute? I'd kinda like to know there's a grand plan for what the human race does when next to no one needs to clock in anymore.



Its like we are being slowly colonized by tech billionaires. It's a bummer that our 5 eyes didn't see this happening. Thinking more about it, maybe that was their intention all along.

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