The Social Impact of Generative LLM-Based AI

TL;DR

This paper discusses the societal implications of generative LLM-based AI, emphasizing its potential to reshape social inequality, knowledge importance, and the rise of social relationships and soft skills in a post-knowledge society.

Contribution

It provides a speculative analysis of how GELLMAI could influence social structures, inequality, and societal values during the upcoming AI Revolution.

Findings

US and China are likely to lead AI development.

AI may diminish the importance of knowledge in society.

Social relationships and soft skills will become more crucial.

Abstract

Liking it or not, ready or not, we are likely to enter a new phase of human history in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) will dominate economic production and social life -- the AI Revolution. Before the actual arrival of the AI Revolution, it is time for us to speculate on how AI will impact the social world. In this article, we focus on the social impact of generative LLM-based AI (GELLMAI), discussing societal factors that contribute to its technological development and its potential roles in enhancing both between-country and within-country social inequality. There are good indications that the US and China will lead the field and will be the main competitors for domination of AI in the world. We conjecture the AI Revolution will likely give rise to a post-knowledge society in which knowledge per se will become less important than in today's world. Instead, individual relationships and social identity will become more important. So will soft skills.