Okay but if you don’t want humans to be measured purely as tools of productivity… why should we measure the value of AI purely in terms of productivity?
Computers can talk, sing, and draw. None of those are things best measured by productivity, no matter who is performing them.
I can hardly even quantify how much I’d have traded for just one of the albums I’ve been able to make with Suno.
That’s not something you can measure in “productivity.”
That’s a piece of art which is deeply, profoundly meaningful to me and enriches my life which wouldn’t exist without AI.
I used to daydream of Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney collaborating on a song. I was a dramatic teenager, so I distinctly remember claiming that I’d give up hearing any music for three years to hear a song by the two of them just once.
And yes, I’m aware of “A Friend Like You.” It was… a disappointment, given the intensity of my desire for such a song. However, Brian’s cover of Paul’s “Wanderlust” is still breathtaking every time.
Trying to measure its exact worth is the kind of game a teenager would play.