indeed. For me the concern is this;

Business wants to reduce the costs for a given output, and thus be able to increase output at the same cost based on demand.

If they can replace a few humes with bottled cognition, and if the cost of that cognition's compute is low enough, then happy days.

Does that business have any concern about what the displaced meat bag does? Does that business have to take into account the wider ramifications of its actions? Nope.

So the solution as I see it, one I'd implement if given sufficient control of the world (ha), would be an automation tax. Given one needs a metric for such things, and cost of compute isn't stable, I'd base the tax on the compute itself.

So then a business has a financial input back to the Government for its implementation of automation. I'd then, being in control of the Government, ensure the tax was used to offset the ramifications of large scale job loss.

Education programs for example, both for the workers and the business owners so that they see that rather than replace job X with automation, accent job X to X plus with automation. Keep the hume in the role, but improve their capability in the role.

Although this makes sense to me, I think it will be a while before us humes know what to do with the BI everywhere if we aren't trained to use it.

How many people have heard of Chat GPT, but still treat it like a search engine, then complain because the results may be fictitious as a result of machine hallucination.