How AI Might Fundamentally Change Society Long-Term
Intelligent-Rub4566 · reddit · 2026-07-19
The author discusses the long-term societal impact of AI from four angles: whether the non-determinism of LLMs/agents is suitable for automation, enterprise vendor lock-in with cloud-based AI, a potential future shift towards smaller, more specialized, and privately deployable models, and whether mass automation will erode the spending power of low-to-middle-income groups and backfire on the economy.
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