I wondered why AI was attacking consultants, doctors and lawyers, not construction workers, carpenters or electricians
The answer seems simple on the surface. ChatGPT can’t fix a bulb. Midjourney can’t generate a real desk. Consultants work with structured frameworks. Lawyers work with organized written rules. AI will obviously attack rule-based knowledge work, not physical creative work.
But the choice of what technology attacks is driven by humans, and humans hate clubs.
Clubs have rules that are only known to club members. Club members have their own complex terms. Clubs are not welcoming to outsiders. Clubs are fiercely protected.
You now realize that technology attacks clubs that we see everyday
Doctors speak in complex terms about our bodies. Lawyers speak in complex terms about our rights. Consultants speak in complex terms about our businesses. Investors speak in complex terms about our money.
All make immense money. All work with our things. All intimidate us. All are therefore clubs.
People outside these clubs feel frustrated. They do not believe the club members should hold such power over them. People hate the fact that they have to pay so much for what seems simply like knowledge. When they discover a new technology, they will direct it first to these clubs.
Its not just AI, every new technology attempted to demolish a club
Search attacked the advertisers club. Social media attacked the media club. OTT attacked the theater club. E-commerce attacked the physical store club, and so on. Every new technology was directed at breaking a club. The best way to know what is going to be attacked is who uses complex terms.
Terms are made complex to keep “outsiders” outside.
But the arc of humanity is that the “outsiders” will not be happy to remain so. In a few decades, AI would enable people would be their own doctors, own lawyers and not need consultants.
Humanity will then move on to the next club to break