How do you define quality?

  If AI evolves over the next couple of years to the point that it quickly generates code from a spec then ideas like software maintenance become obsolete.

Industrial process controls follow a method like this today. There are large libraries of validated software modules that are as symbolic function blocks plugged together in a ladder logic schematic. Lots of stability, efficiency, and high performance/safety levels. Every oil refinery, power plant, and chemical plant operates on such software.

The specs are the engineering part. The coding is not. You can assign people to research algorithms, and develop optimum methods, but why should humans be coding?

You are assuming that a demand will exist for human labor or skill, and that there will always be a skill one can learn or physical labor one can provide,

In the age of robotics and ai as they are being presented, that is a false premise,

Any physical work that can be done by a human today can be done by a robot. If not, explain why,

Any knowledge work that can be done by a human can be done more quickly and potentially much cheaper by an AI.

Writing code? AI is faster and cheaper.
Structural calculation? Why not AI?
Computer design? Why are humans better than AI?

The only real demand for human intellect will be on the leading edge of science, perhaps healthcare, and there are not 8 billion jobs available for that. Maybe a few million.

What he means is there will be shortages of complaint and low cost experts with specific skills that I cannot yet define

They will use that to fraudulently flood the country with cheap foreign visa labor while laying off hordes of American workers while screaming like stuck pigs about shortages

We need to beat China at AI by bulldozing our environment and violating property rights of our citizens to build it

But we also need to allow China to use our AI without limits because reasons

Make that make sense. Both cannot be true

What benefit does it provide

Short term returns for investors and a new way to target consumers with advertising

Members of the military, including marines, are surprisingly left wing

The company will be, not an individual

X box console in the cloud for a low monthly subscription. Just connect your controllers to your PC and go!

I did a long time ago and do not miss it at all. Google, meta, X, etc are based around tracking and monetizing you. Thats their purpose.

Google ditched the do no evil motto at least a decade ago

If you pull more water out of wells than nature can replace, that water is gone forever and the aquifer is permanently depleted. Thatâ(TM)s a matter of soil permeability, and it has a hard and absolute limit.

The certificate is expiring. Why is Microsoft obligated to renew it? Is the software out of its support window? Why not just switch to LibreOffice or Apple published office products?

That wonâ(TM)t hide your location and behavior from the telecom co. How many supposedly safe VPN providers do you think 5 eyes agencies have infiltrated or funded?

The government wants this, as its a great way to sidestep that pesky constitution and engage in warrantless mass surveillance.

Congress wouldnâ(TM)t pass legislation ensuring troops could repair their own equipment in theater, what makes you think that they will take action on this given the amount of money at stake?