Sora could ruin peoples lives

A child's life is valuable each moment. There's no guarantee of security and safety for any human anywhere at any time. We can't just be paralyzed by possible negative outcomes, life requires taking risks.

(You might not want kids for some other reason, like free time, don't like kids, etc, but if you would otherwise have kids except for the dangers in the world, I'd say rethink your risk tolerance)

The impact of technology like Sora on people who work in the animation and firm industry is indeed troubling. In my ideal world it leads to an explosion of creativity as people with great skill and taste use it to produce even more ambitious work - but the negative world in which those skills become undervalued and we get way more content of a much lower quality is certainly possible.

Something that worries me more at the moment is the impact this will have on people's plans.

In this post we have a 16 year old who's passionate about animation but is questioning whether it's a viable industry to join.

I've seen plenty of examples of students who planned to be computer programmers but are now having second thoughts about that career as well.

Twenty years ago there was a similar fear in programming, that all of the jobs were going to be outsourced to lower cost countries. I believe there were people who changed their career plans as a result of that fear back then as well.

I hope we don't see a huge flurry of people making life altering career decisions based on their fear of AI which they later come to regret as this shakes out in a more positive direction.

(I also hope we don't see people who genuinely DO regret their career decisions if AI turns out to have the negative impact that many people fear today.)

What demographic explosion? In most developed countries at least there is a baby bust. Populations are rapidly aging.

Chapter 5: Humans learn that not only are they not special, they are pretty low on the spectrum of what they thought was special.

I think what a lot of the answers gloss over is that the period of adjustment to the new technology often does pull the rug from under people who have invested a good deal of time and attention becoming skilled at something. Our lives are of limited length therefore the concern for a generation of people is real and shouldn't be just treated as a detail of history.

Equally in many areas the end result is a loss of something (often intangible) which we accept as "good enough" and which may take a long time to be recaptured.

The steam engine may well have been a good thing in the long run but I'm sure it did tear apart the fabric of many people's lives and I think it's reasonable to commiserate.