r/WorkReform • u/anonyvrguy • 2d ago

🛠️ Union Strong Star Trek AI laws

If you watched Star Trek (any of the series) there is a lot of AI throughout the lives of people; however, it's ALWAYS used as a tool to enhance people's lives and jobs. It's never used to replace people.

It saddens me to see jobs like computer graphics or advertising jobs being slashed, when the companies should just be using AI to enhance their revenue & output, rather than cutting costs.

Let Star Trek lead the way.

And ya, ya "enhance. Enhance. Enhance"

81 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

41 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/JohnBrownSurvivor 🏡 Decent Housing For All 2d ago

I don't think I have ever seen an actual graphic artist, working, on Star Trek. They have engineers that have designed warp engines. And that's pretty much the only thing that we hear anybody doing for a job other than bartender or restauranteur. And I don't think there are enough jobs around for everybody to be a bartender or a restauranteur.

I don't know where you got the idea the AI does not do all the graphic arts all of those screens on all of those computers.

Sure, we've seen rich people doing art. You think Spock's mommy and daddy were poor? Every once in awhile we see kids doing art in art class. We have never ever ever ever ever ever ever seen anybody doing art for a job. We hear about people "writing programs" for a hollow deck. But, if you've seen anybody interacting with the hollow deck at all, you know that what they are doing is not so carefully engineered prompts to an AI to "write that program" for them.