We could be months away from driverless semi trucks on Texas freeways - I visited two startups working to bring driverless technology to long-haul trucking.
I feel like we are heading to a post-work future where eventually AI and robotics will do most of the work and that will be a good thing. In the meantime, I'm sure there will be a lot of pain and revolution to get to that point.
Even in rich Western countries tens of millions of people rely on driving, delivery and taxi jobs. When people realize they are disappearing forever we'll be one step closer to that future.
That would be nice. It's the interceding years of epidemic homelessness, plague, starvation, and the violence all that will breed that I dread.
Our oligarchs are perfectly happy to push people into the gutter and let them die right now. When they can wipe whole industries out with AI and automation, they will do it with gusto. They have no humanity or empathy. Just avarice.