AI Threatens to Make Us More Productive

The problem with making machines that just make humans more productive is you then have to employ humans, and that's a really difficult thing to do. Even during the Industrial Revolution, self-acting machines were very attractive to employers. And office automation was hailed as something that was going to create high productivity because you could get rid of your white-collar workers. So that dream has become partly a reality. But if you are the manager, that might be a good thing, not for the workers, not for society at large. We could do better with technology by complementing humans by creating new tasks for them.