Impact of AI

    

I understand, coding is an area where workforce is heading for something new, given the rapid advances in software, computation, and technology. For those who follow this profession, there will be a lack of opportunities for much of the pastimes, exchanges, and recreations, AI programmers and helpers keeping them perpetually busy. An ‘artificial intelligence economy’ is going to happen soon, says one editorial.

What was happening all this while? Each one of us have been toiling for hours (one;s calling), while enjoying whatever hours one could manage for progressing one’s interests and affairs, collectively called living. Interests or activity that could take any form, like reading, writing, music, fine arts, or social transactions of whatever genre. Or, the time and space we devote to progress and celebrate things other than one's  calling, is what constitutes one's life. Now that AI is poised to eat away the toiling hours, each of us is going to be left with very many hours to follow or progress those matters. And it is going to be the same for everyone, however much the calling may differ. Time available for one’s calling will shoot up, occupying the lion’s share of each day.

Remember, one’s calling could only stem out of the same for another one. For example, if reading is my passion, it can happen only when the one whose passion is writing keeps oneself busy in it. And so is it, far all of us. So, when each of us engage with our own calling more an more, every other one also need to do so. As a result, for all, involvement with one’s interests and affairs stand to go down.

Since, AI, more than stealing our jobs, is going to take away the life from each one of us, we need to quickly come up with another one that can take its place.

Book Review: Breaking Democracy's Chains

 Breaking Democracy's Chains by Metin Pekin is a critical look at the practice of democracy; and is quite in line with the ideas I personally hold.

It introduces freedom, something we cherish a lot, as an invisible cage, and democracy, our expression of freedom, a polished illusion of the same. In the first of 14 chapters, the book narrates the initial days of USA and the duel between the federalists, who wanted central control, and the Jeffersonians, who stood for the states. This is the origin of the party system that continue to defeat the ideals of democracy, it adds. The book then goes on to elaborate, how, every evil that happens in a democracy will be having a party behind it, and what, a no-party system can do here. It then shows the nuts and bolts of the next democratic evolution, and suggests a path, specifically for a no-party model. How, responsibility can replace illusion, and let us all out of a cage.

This is a remarkable work with compelling arguments and examples. I agree with the author. Party system, rather than uniting, is turning us into each other. And, we now need to unite, for bringing in a no-party system to replace it.