Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
Yes, and it will free them up to do other more productive things. Have you studied history or economics? When lower level tasks are automated that allows a lot of labor to be used for other activities. Maybe we should bring back the horse and buggy and share croppers and elevator operators?
That is called theft, otherwise known as communism. It has failed everywhere it has been tried, not to mention it is antithetical to basic human rights.
The economic system we have now is a very recent phenomenon. The idea that you learn a skill(a 'career'), and then get paid so you can pay for a roof over your head and buying food, is a very recent phenomenon and probably doesn't exist on a human timeline. The large majority of our time was hunter gatherer, after that then the agricultural revolution, then the industrial revolution and now the Information Age. We have never been through this before. Computers are going to be smarter and faster than humans and that is coming quick. Google's 'Deep Mind' already beat 2 players at Go. And this will only continue to accelerate exponentially. I replied to your post above by linking to an article who's title quipped 'Googles AI is creating AI better than its own engineers.' The terms 'Machine Learning' and 'Deep Neural Networks' comes to mind. You replying that we should bring back horses and elevator operators misses the point. We won't be able to be 'freed up' to do higher tasks when Machine Intelligence will surpass the human brain (which stopped evolving thousands of years ago) and do those things with exponentially faster speed.
That said I believe that when pilots are automated out of the picture 'who is flying the plane' won't matter. Life will be radically changed.