> I think that with AI, our societies will look more like some african country with warlords than the developed, labour based economies we have today.
It's not the same. Oil and other extractable resources are not evenly spread. AI can be. You only need to train once the base models, but oil extraction is continual work.
As for consumption - both resources and AI support diverse applications creating diverse jobs. AI has this interesting property that it adapts to the user by itself, the benefit flows mostly to the user as they prompt to solve their problems. The AI provider only gets cents per million tokens.
When talking about job market comparing humans with AI is not very useful, humans will all have AI support, the real comparison will be between AI alone and AI+human.
It's not the same. Oil and other extractable resources are not evenly spread. AI can be. You only need to train once the base models, but oil extraction is continual work.
As for consumption - both resources and AI support diverse applications creating diverse jobs. AI has this interesting property that it adapts to the user by itself, the benefit flows mostly to the user as they prompt to solve their problems. The AI provider only gets cents per million tokens.
When talking about job market comparing humans with AI is not very useful, humans will all have AI support, the real comparison will be between AI alone and AI+human.