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AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
(www.theregister.com)
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I think it is non-manual labour that they want to replace. In their world, people will still have to earn money, but not with their brain or expertise but with their hands and/or bodies.
Well, Robotics is (allegedly) making big progress too. Have you seen those robot dogs replacing security guards, self-driving cars replacing human drivers, or the level of automation reported in Chinese car factories? Even warfare has changed, largely automating the once manual job of murdering your neighbors.
But that aside, even if manual labor still exists in this future automation dystopia, if it's all that's left, the economy will still shrink considerably.