In the Age of AI, Is Unemployment a Disease or the Cure?

A question for our mutual consideration: Is AI-fueled job destruction a threat or an opportunity?

Those who know me are well aware that I have ridden the digital doomer-dystopian tech horse pretty hard over the years. Even a brief visit to my old Teeming Brain blog will turn up ample evidence of this. See, for instance, the tag cloud in the right sidebar, where the largest item is “apocalypse watch,” and where “dystopia” and “technopoly” are also prominent. Given this, the current explosion of cu...