Hello @pedrobrito2004,

thanks for your comment! 

I agree with all that you write here 100%. 

I am quite sure that it must be obvious to "the ruling class" (tbh I thought a little longer about this classification til I had to nod) what is in front of us all. 

But I also know that social/political and for the most part economical change and adjustment is slow. Everything that exceeds an time horizon of a few years isn't so much in the focus of those in power now, be it an politician who's self preservation mechanisms prohibit to engage in issues beyond his legislation period or far beyond the next elections, if he's active in a democracy at least, or an CEO to go against money to be made right now in contrast to things that would take a few years to unfold.

That's why I think that the AI development in China became so scary fast in the last 5 years. The ruling class that is in place just decides upon what needs to happen and that's that. They support big tech and big commerce as long as they stay in line with the political agenda of the rulers. This lead too this treasure trove of data which is ever increasing, not at last due to their disregard of privacy idea's in general, the life blood of every AI development.

This is why the west and especially the US will have a hard time to keep their front runner position in this field. They US already are pretty lax when it comes to enforcing privacy besides in some niches like HIPAA (health care data regulations) but still no par to China!

"If data is the new Gold than China is the new Saudi Arabia!" was said in this documentation that I was referring too and I think this is true!

When people think about threats introduced by AI the all fall into that "Skynet Terminator" thing. 

Even if this also is (in terms of FAW/LAW) a real possibility and danger... for the moment the clear and present danger comes from the social economic changes that AI will introduce to all mankind.  

At last, to reflect on the own, personal consequences of these AI driven, worldwide changes is tough, but I think it's good advice for everyone to reflect a little on that!

Like you came to the conclusion that your job might be at risk I come to the same result when I look at my occupation right now!

There are already AI driven cyber security defense systems in the wild! When it comes to awareness training, IT security training which is at least 30% of my job as information security officer the same class of expert systems that already start to replace others, even or especially with academic backgrounds, like lawyers for instance, could make my work in this regard obsolete pretty "soonish" I guess.

The last field of expertise that the AI maybe will need for a while will be the implementation and further training were maybe in some parts my advice would be of some merit to it.

In my field of expertise IT security this is especially weird I guess because right now this field is placed in the job market as "THE thing to do" for the young digital natives. 

And it's true, right now we have so many open positions in this field, and it's hard to find experts.

I'm pretty sure this demand will die down in the next 5-10 years because there's a better choice available. 

_It works 24/7, doesn't demand a wage and constant raises, no sick days, no holidays and is way more competent than all of the human information security specialists together._ 

Cheers!
Lucky

what an amazing comment @pedrobrito2004