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One of the biggest concerns that many have regarding AI is how it'll affect the job market, as it has already infiltrated millions of roles and threatens to make many completely redundant in the next few years.
It seems like all you hear about artificial intelligence these days is how much it will destabilize the world of employment, and while that would be great in an idealized future where nobody has to work, it'll likely just result in bigger revenues for massive companies while normal people struggle to get by.
Some of the biggest names in the AI industry have proposed ideas where people would be given a high base income for simply existing as a result of the overwhelming profits generated by automated workflows, yet there is the suggestion that this could lead people to lose purpose in life.
We witnessed during the pandemic all of the new hobbies and activities that people picked up when they suddenly didn't have to work anymore, and exercise was one of the biggest areas that millions focused on.
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One dystopian 'advert' generated using AI has proposed that key figures could take advantage of this in the future, as Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos team up to create a company that seemingly solves the energy crisis.
Shared by Mint, the video envisions the aforementioned three figures as the co-founders of a company called 'ENERGYM', harnessing the kinetic energy generated by people working out across the world to power AI data centers.
Older and graying versions of these AI leaders reveal that by 2030, around 80 percent of the global population had lost their jobs and with no purpose, no money, but a lot of time on their hands they all turned to one thing: exercise.
A 2036 vision by @aicandy.be imagines AI replacing 80% of jobs after a 2026 market crash. The proposed solution: humans generate physical energy (Energym) to power AI. This blend of dystopia and reality questions human value and purpose in an AI-driven economy. #AI #FutureofWork pic.twitter.com/exWZbRYRI3
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"The less people actually did physical work, the more they wanted to appear as if they did," explains an AI generated Sam Altman amid images of bodybuilder-esque physiques.
"What is we could use the energy of humans to power the machines that took away their jobs?" Questions AI Musk, with the advert concluding that "ENERGYM saved our need for energy and your need for purpose."
It's unclear whether this would be a viable source of energy in the first place, especially as there's currently propositions to take data centers into space to harness the power of the Sun, but above all it definitely paints a dystopian picture of the planet in less than a decade — and one that perhaps doesn't seem to far from the truth considering current trajectories.
