I came across this study recently about the violent crime impact of automation: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4574716#:~:text=Our%20analysis%20reveals%20significant%20positive,fraud%20crime%20rate%20by%209.1%25.
After seeing this tiktok posted today: https://x.com/DThompsonDev/status/1782446072452780347
It got me thinking that if AI is going to impact as many jobs as certain companies are predicting, I wonder if that could directly lead to an increase in violent crime due to low cost labor jobs basically vanishing and leaving people with nothing else to turn to to make a living (as not everyone will have the income, skills, time, freedom, resources, etc.. to tech up into higher skill jobs).
Thoughts?
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