# Bill the Wizard's Take on Generative AI
Our society is going through a watershed moment: the rise of general
purpose AI that will be able to do practically anything. Technical,
creative, managerial, culinary, agricultural, transportation, construction,
maintenance, communication, every sector of our society will be
impacted.

It doesn't matter what the work is. The technologies we are developing
are going to enable organizations able to do more with less people
working for them.

## Who does it benefit?
AI datacenters are ran by some of the richest people in the world. Right
now in 2025, they are essensially operating at a loss and laundering
billions between one another to drive up stock value based on mostly
hype that's pushing everyone to assume use of the AI-enabled cloud.

People are going from cutting code themselves to asking a cloud computing
service to generate code that they will spend hours vetting and debugging.
It's possible to create large scale projects with fewer people.

Physically embodied AI is still too expensive to go mainstream, but
that's just a matter of trade-wars cooling down. When the dust settles,
we'll have a few coporations replacing all matter of physical labor with
AI driven robotics.

## Think about the Horses
Prior to the invention of automobiles, there were a
lot more horses in the United States. People stopped buying horses
because they could buy a machine that did comparable work.

The industrial revolution accelerated the scaling up of infrastructure
to support cars, trains, and automobiles. Capital driven industry
capitalized on scientific progress, hard won through generations of
scientists pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the
natural world. 

Gas was cheap and plentiful. As transportation technology improved, less
horses were bred for transporting people and goods. In the year 2024,
you only see horses when you drive through rural areas where people
keep horses for pleasure riding, herding cattle, or competing in rodeos.
Maybe you'll see horses in a parade, or at a State fair. There's
still horses, but a lot less of them. The horses we do keep
are special, or lucky to be important to someone.

## Post General AI Society
Right now we are experiencing just a taste of the impact AI will
have on human industry, education, and society. AI
Models like ChatGPT, StableDiffusion, and alike are able to generate
value for organizations that would take Humans minutes, days, hours,
or months. StableDiffusion can pump out art that in seconds that a
skilled graphic artist may take days to create. That analysis of hundreds of
records can be done in minutes insteads of taking a team of people
weeks. 

What's been made public is only a primitive, pared down, and optimized
-for-scale version of what the corporations funding these projects have access
to. It takes too many millions of dollars to develop these models for
academia to drive the bleeding edge with these tools. Private corporations
are at the heart of decision making regarding the most destructive innovation
since the atomic bomb.

Profit driven industry holds all the cards when it comes to the development
of AI. Hiring less people means more profit for the top 1%. Jobs are evaporating
before our eyes, and our academic programs are facing a societal challenge
that shakes, to the core, the very nature of what we value from
education. It's an assault on the working person from all angles. AI chat has
the potential to solve any number of Computer Science homework questions.

Without scrict control of the work AI can do, AI will be in the driver seat
for much of the heavy mental lifts that humans need to develop cognitive
prowess. The AI will keep getting better, but people will have less interest
in developing the capacity to do things themselves.

In the Post General AI Society, state entities will need to figure out how to
balance the needs of human beings with the insane productivity of multi-billion
corporations. Organizations that employ lots of people will be forced to replace human
labor.

## Nothing to Do
If AI can do your homework, make writing a paper easier, or
create all the art you would ever want, people have more time to just consume media.
AI is already replacing administrative staff, graphic artists, engineers,
journalists, paralegals, medical assistants, billing specialists, cybersecurity
professionals.
Large corporations with access to these technologies downsize their workforce, one
role at a time, or they let wages languish as the economy inflates. Feel
free to not replace people when they leave because productivity levels are
so easy to maintain.
All you will need is a C-Suite, a pile of computers, and a skeleton crew of
DevOps people to connect services across the globe. Fully automated factories will
employ some human beings, but just a small fraction of the people who would have
been necessary to staff that scale of operation in the 1990's.