My students, the majority of whom hope to find employment in the entertainment/game industry, are terrified of AI. They are worried that AI will take away the jobs they hope to get. And it probably will.
They see this as a threat to "creativity." It is not. It is a threat to mindless widget making.
This was the promise of automation: that one day machines would liberate us from drudgery. Now the promise has turned into a threat.
The I in AI is misplaced. AI is a witless pastiche-generating machine. And no threat to anyone whose work relies on actual intelligence.
The real problem is that most jobs in America are "service" jobs. These jobs will be taken over by AI because they are jobs that require a workforce of automatons. So actual automatons will eventually be doing them.
AI is not intelligent. It is compliant. That is its advantage. It can be used and abused without resentment. It's not bright and it's not creative but in most paying jobs those things don't help, they hinder. Those jobs will be done by AI.
This energetic Canadian creates commendable content with the simplest of means. AI, which is incapable of humor, does not threaten his job.