> If 80% of US citizens lose their jobs, I assure you that there will be a political response. It might not be one you (or I) like, but it will happen and it will be a big deal.
In societies where 80% of people are not able to draw an income and there are more firearms than there are people allowed to own them, that political response is revolution.
That is also what I would expect, regardless of firearm laws. Like look at how many people are fans of populists right now. Then 10x that if basically everyone is unemployed.
It's gonna be a wild ride.
That being said, I'm not convinced LLM based workflows will be transformative, at least over the short term (3-5 years). It took a long time for the whole of society to end up on the Internet and I'd expect around the same speed for AI/LLM approaches (even in the best case scenario).
In societies where 80% of people are not able to draw an income and there are more firearms than there are people allowed to own them, that political response is revolution.