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The reasons that jump out at me are that, as a society, we're setting up to produce a more stuff with less effort, provide higher quality advice to everyone at an absurdly low cost, revolutionise research and it looks like we're going to be able to get a step-change improvement in the quality of economic management which is huge in and of itself. The wins seem like they're going to be big.
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> we're setting up to produce a more stuff with less effort

According to Jevon's paradox[0], this would lead to more consumption of resources. We're already straining at the limits of the Earth. Depletion and collapse won't be good for anyone.

> provide higher quality advice to everyone at an absurdly low cost

Given every LLM's propensity to hallucinate, the only quality advice is that which can be followed back to a human expert-vetted source. But we already have people who don't check sources and get bad advice.

> revolutionise research

Maybe, but AI is also being used in a mass spread of misinformation.

> a step-change improvement in the quality of economic management

I don't know exactly what you mean by this, but from what I'm seeing so far, this looks like it will massively increase wealth disparity, which is bad for most people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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