The difference between AI and all other tech is that in case of all other tech transition work was bottlenecked by humans. It was humans who should have made technology more efficient and integrate it into economy. In case of sufficiently advanced agentic AI you can just ask it “integrate into economy pls” and it will get the job done. That’s why AIs want to be agentic.
Will AI companies solve problems on the way to robust agency and if yes, then how fact? I think, correct answer is “I don’t know, nobody knows.” Maybe the last breakthrough is brewed right now in basement of SSI.
Yeah, I think a genuinely large difference between the AI transition and other transitions is that for at least some applications of AI, you can remove the bottleneck of humans needing to integrate new tech which will expand over time, and the corrected conclusion to the post is this is why humans want tool AIs to be autonomous.
That said, I don’t think that the transition is literally as fast as “someone finds the secret in a basement in SSI”, but yes this cuts the time from decades to months-years for the transition (which is both slow and also wildly fast.)
The difference between AI and all other tech is that in case of all other tech transition work was bottlenecked by humans. It was humans who should have made technology more efficient and integrate it into economy. In case of sufficiently advanced agentic AI you can just ask it “integrate into economy pls” and it will get the job done. That’s why AIs want to be agentic.
Will AI companies solve problems on the way to robust agency and if yes, then how fact? I think, correct answer is “I don’t know, nobody knows.” Maybe the last breakthrough is brewed right now in basement of SSI.
Yeah, I think a genuinely large difference between the AI transition and other transitions is that for at least some applications of AI, you can remove the bottleneck of humans needing to integrate new tech which will expand over time, and the corrected conclusion to the post is this is why humans want tool AIs to be autonomous.
That said, I don’t think that the transition is literally as fast as “someone finds the secret in a basement in SSI”, but yes this cuts the time from decades to months-years for the transition (which is both slow and also wildly fast.)