New research explores the potential of AI to not just mimic human conversation but fundamentally supplant many aspects human cognition. The work, published in the journal Neuropsychology, raises concerns about the risks that AI chatbots might pose to higher order executive functions.
Less educated? No. Less skilled workers in manufacturing and fabrication through automation? Yes. It was part and parcel of cost cutting of labour. Even Charlie Chaplin made a point of it.
In modern times, things have gotten more complex though, because of technological advances. Not that it stopped western “capitalists” from cutting labour costs, by instead opting to outsource labour to communist China.
There’s that pesky dialectical materialism showing its ugly face again.