AI: cognitive labor glut + new guys

Why is the advent of AI a big deal, and more worrying than previous advents? I think there are actually two interesting things going on, that make AI importantly different to previous technologies.I. Industrializing the cognitive labor supplyI.a. Scale: the incoming ocean of new cognitive laborUntil lately, useful cognitive labor has basically come from human brains. This has made it slow to scale up, and expensive to use. AI is the industrialization of cognitive labor. Soon we will have very mu...