Separately, I at least spontaneously wonder: How would one even want to go about differentiating what is the ‘bad automation’ to be discouraged, from legit automation without which no modern economy could competitively run anyway? For a random example, say if Excel wouldn’t yet exist (or, for its next update..), we’d have to say: Sorry, cannot do such software, as any given spreadsheet has the risk of removing thousands of hours of work...?! Or at least: Please, Excel, ask the human to manually confirm each cell’s calculation...?? So I don’t know how we’d in practice enforce non-automation. Just ‘it uses a large LLM’ feels weirdly arbitrary condition—though, ok, I could see how, due to a lack of alternatives, one might use something like that as an ad-hoc criterion, with all the problems it brings. But again, I think points 1. & 2. mean this is unrealistic or unsuccessful anyway.
Clearly, specific rule-based regulation is a dumb strategy. Acemoglu’s suggestions: tax incentives to keep employment and “labour voice” to let people decide in the context of specific company and job how they want to work with AI. I like this self-governing strategy. Basically, the idea is that people will want to keep influencing things and will resist “job bullshittification” done to them, if they have the political power (“labour voice”). But they should also have alternative choice of technology and work arrangement/method that doesn’t turn their work into rubber-stamping bullshit, but also alleviates the burden (“machine usefulness”). Because if they only have the choice between rubber-stamping bullshit job and burdensome job without AI, they may choose rubber-stamping.
Clearly, specific rule-based regulation is a dumb strategy. Acemoglu’s suggestions: tax incentives to keep employment and “labour voice” to let people decide in the context of specific company and job how they want to work with AI. I like this self-governing strategy. Basically, the idea is that people will want to keep influencing things and will resist “job bullshittification” done to them, if they have the political power (“labour voice”). But they should also have alternative choice of technology and work arrangement/method that doesn’t turn their work into rubber-stamping bullshit, but also alleviates the burden (“machine usefulness”). Because if they only have the choice between rubber-stamping bullshit job and burdensome job without AI, they may choose rubber-stamping.