We had a terrific dialog throughout February’s UL Mid-month Meetup, the place we mentioned our careers, how susceptible they have been to AI, and how one can change into as resilient as attainable.
One UL member, Shantanu Singh, talked in regards to the dichotomy of Gatekeepers vs. Creators, which I believed was a superb body. It received me excited about all the varied classes of worth or worth negation within the present economic system. What you see above is what I got here up with out of his concept and the next dialogue with the opposite members.
So the framing can be a few totally different questions:
What are the present class ratios?
Which class is almost certainly to get crushed by AI?
Which is almost certainly to outlive and/or develop?
If we completely transitioned into Human 3.0, and constructed a post-capitalist society that maximized human , what would this chart appear like?
We had just a few opinions and observations that all of us agreed on.
What is going to matter going ahead (and largely already) is CREATORS
We didn’t discuss NURTURERS, however I’m certain they received’t thoughts my addition. They’re form of like one other kind of creator, actually. And they’d embrace roles like father or mother, instructor, social employee, and so forth.
EXECUTORS are individuals doing a lot of the on a regular basis work and duties (no, not beheading individuals). Stuff like customer support, chilly calling, junior programmers, admins, and so forth. Principally, the individuals who get issues performed. Oh, additionally managers. Loosen up. It’s a joke. Form of.
Then you’ve gotten the GATEKEEPERS. These are the individuals making an attempt to dam or in any other case cease potential CREATORS and EXECUTORS from benefiting from their talents.
Examples of every embrace (however will not be restricted to):
CREATORS: Artists, Musicians, Poets, Writers, Entrepreneurs
NURTURERS: Mother and father, Academics, Social Staff, Authorities*
EXECUTORS: Admins, Junior Coders, Managers, Buyer Service
GATEKEEPERS: Skilled Organizations, Lobbyists
Some examples we talked about have been like the truth that it’s actually laborious to start out a enterprise as a result of there’s a lot pink tape. It’s laborious to offer medical or psychological assist to somebody as a result of solely sure individuals are allowed. Solely sure individuals are allowed to offer sure authorized paperwork. and so forth.
The problem of execution
The dimensions of execution wanted to do the world’s duties
Gatekeepers stopping creators and executors from coming into the sport
AI will crush all of those. Not fully after all, however massively. Why? Due to what I talked about in that put up above. Principally, AI excels at large-scale execution of automatable duties, and AI will solely get higher and higher at that form of work.
That is phenomenal information for people for a quite simple motive.
There shall be hundreds of thousands extra creators! Proper now it’s laborious to create. It prices cash. There’s paperwork concerned. You might want to pay charges. You might want to navigate laws.
That is an instance of GATEKEEPING. Not all gatekeepers are individuals. We’ve additionally constructed 1,000,000 totally different techniques that GATEKEEP, and AI disrupts these as properly.
Extra individuals making artwork, movies, anime, brief tales, performs, films, and all kinds of fantastic issues that solely a tiny % of 1% of the planet might do earlier than.
Extra individuals will be capable of have an concept, begin a enterprise, and go to market—all by themselves! Why? As a result of their AIs could have accomplished all of the paperwork for them, and plus they’ll have AI to do the help, to assist them with gross sales, and the million different small jobs that it takes to run a enterprise.
In brief, extra artists, and extra entrepreneurs. Not just a few extra. Tens or lots of of hundreds of thousands extra.
In order that begins to look one thing like this, possibly, assuming we don’t kill ourselves off whereas making an attempt to get there.
90% of the planet being CREATORS or NURTURERS!
And to be clear, there shall be TONS of EXECUTORS. They’ll simply be AI Brokers.
In the meantime, people shall be targeted on the stuff that issues. Human stuff.
This is what I would like from AI, and what I’m making an attempt to assist construct.
