The AI revolution, Why it's different this time.

 By Stanley Thomas 

The human race has experienced the agricultural revolution where farming was the way to grow a society. No more hunting and gathering for food to feed the camp. People worked the field, plowing the soil, planting the seeds, and watering the ground unless rain was due soon. Then one day the machines took over. With the machine called the tractor, you could do the work of 20 people when it comes to plowing the field and planting seeds. Many people were put out of work because less people were needed to work on the farms. Machines were popping up everywhere. First the machines were just doing farming work, then they branched off into industrial work. These machines were helping to make things that people needed. They were making clothes and quilts and blankets and such. The world had already entered the industrial revolution. This revolution lasted for I would say a good century. But then all of a sudden these newer, weirder machines have come upon the scene. You see back in the 40s you had operators who were called computers. They would pull one plug out of a hole and they would plug it into another hole. Then something revolutionary happened. There was this machine called a computer. This machine will do all of the computing work so there was no need for humans to do that anymore. So sometime between 1960 and 1970 we entered the computer revolution. What's interesting about this revolution is that it made the way for the other two revolutions that came along decades later. Next came the software revolution in which it became more about the software inside of the computers than about the computers themselves. Around this time somewhere back in the late 1990s there was some talk about artificial intelligence or what we now call AI. This was supposed to allow for computers to think for themselves and make decisions, to do things on their own. There was also talk about quantum computing, where a computer can figure out complex computer problems that would take someone months or years and figure them out in only seconds. But as of 2024 a new revolution has taken place, and that is the AI revolution. We have seen the effects of AI already in 2025 with massive layoffs. Companies have figured out how to do much of their work with AI instead of with employees. And if they have any employees they will be training AI to do the tasks. Many people feel that employees will be totally replaced by AI by 2030. But many experts claim that AI will not be replacing workers to the point of eliminating workers altogether. They claim that this revolution will be just like all the other revolutions in which jobs have changed and switched. In the era of the agricultural age instead of people planting crops they will be running the tractors. So in this case experts claim that we won't need people to do the current jobs that we have but they will be doing other jobs created because of AI. But here's the problem that I have with that argument. All of the revolutions prior to AI were designed to shorten human labor and they have created other positions for humans to do. The AI revolution however is different. It is designed to be a technology which thinks and learns and does everything that humans do and to replace human beings. The other revolutions came about to make mass production of things much easier and faster. They did not come about to totally replace human beings all together. But with AI, it is designed to replace humans. AI combined with robotics creates a machine that mimics everything that humans do and that would include thinking and learning and getting smarter as it goes along. We never had a technology like this before. So it is indeed scary that most of the human race could be replaced within a hundred years with AI combined with robotics and quantum computing. It is scary the rate at which these machines are learning. Before long they will be doing everything that humans do except they won't have a soul.