Do we secretly want AI to fail?

At the onset of the Industrial revolution, millions of people lost their jobs, but it was then and now declared, that it was just the price of progress. The initial labor workers would lose their 'easy-to-replace' jobs and eventually, they would get others. They would have to adapt and become less replaceable. "Get an office job, Morty, then a machine can't take your job". Well I wish Morty was here. That imaginary person I just made up, would have been shitting his pants in equal excitement and fright. Because as slow as it's happening. Robots are taking everything

Now of course the robots I speak of are just in the initial stages. The mind of the robots is what is currently being made. To make the body is the easy bit. The mind needs to cook for a bit. They need it to be READY. It's quite clear that the AI era, at least in its infancy stages is going to take a lot of jobs.

A lot of people are going to be replaced and it's going to be a gradual process before the jobs that AI will create, finally balance things out. The news of this inevitable eventuality has created a sort of "Bitter taste" in the mouths of most.

Why? Because AI succeeding would mean a lot of things, one of them being. In the areas that most human beings excelled at and thrived. Their purpose and joy. Their talent, their identity, and their reason to live. Could so easily be replaced by an even better model.

Do we want it to fail, because AI succeeding would mean that we are easy to replace? That the millions who lose their jobs and careers, and sources of livelihood. They are easy to be replaced. They are a lesser version. That we will do better without you? Machines have been in the pipeline replacing folks left right and center, but this isn't a tractor or some low-level invention?

This is the guy who drives it, this is the Bouncer outside the club, the guy taking and giving orders at the drive-through, this is the DJ, the songwriter, this is the teacher, the artist, and the nanny. This is MAN.

I think for all our insistence on better and greater inventions. This is the first one in the history of mankind, that most people if they were honest. Are afraid of it? There are too many questions to answer, that could change people's lives in a multitude of ways.

Will AI be a net good or "We wish we never made THAT"?

Like the people who made bombs, guns and nuclear weapons. Do they regret their choice? Do they WISH they had kept all those things in their imagination? Shall we regret this God imitation?

We shall see.

Ian Kiguru.