By Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It definitely seems as though this year is going potentially be one of the most consequential years in modern American history. A number of trends are coming together at the same time — late 2024, early 2025 — to the point that we may be experiencing a perfect storm of a technological Petite Singularity while also experiencing a political Fourth Turning.
If ChatGPT 5.0 comes out and it’s as powerful as we all hope it might be, it could almost immediately begin cause ripple effects through the knowledge economy to the point that our current blazing economic situation may begin to falter…just as we’re entering the 2024 election silly season.
And that doesn’t even begin to address all the bonkers disinformation uses bad actors might find for ChatGPT 5 while we’re holding our breath to see if American democracy will last another four years.
Ironically, it seems possible that one of the first high paying white collar jobs to vanish may be…programming. I think if we are suddenly jolted into the future by AI taking over programming we are going to hear A LOT of squealing that there need to be carveouts for humans so a certain percentage of jobs is done by humans.
Only time will tell, I suppose.
