“What companies are not trying to save money through automation and A.I.?”
I would hope all of them so I can buy their products cheaper.
“People will initially service the machines, but you don’t need that many people compared to the number of people that were in a job field before. Furthermore, you will not need as many people in time servicing the machines as technology gets better. In other words Robots will service Robots, A.I., etc...”
Truly idiotic logic and ignorance of human nature and potential. Tell me, are the only jobs available today building, fixing, maintaining tractors, combines, sowers, weeders etc?? Over the years, close to 80 percent of the people have been displaced by those machines and yet most people today have jobs that have nothing to do with fixing those machines or working on the farm. What are these people doing today?
Same thing with the digital revolution - how many clerks, secretary, travel agents, tellers have been displaced by that revolution? Yet unemployment today is at 4.4% and illiterate, non english speaking illegal immigrants from AI-free countries are flooding across the border and getting jobs in our AI rich country where all jobs supposedly are going to robots?!
“What industry needs will NOT be affected by technology?”
Hopefully all of them - that’s what increases productivity and your standard of living. Or would you rather be living in AI free Burundi?
I see your handle is Enlightened1, a better one might be “Bamboozled”.
First try to stay focus on this debate. We are talking about the future and not the present or the past.
Well I am glad you admit companies are saving money through Automation and A.I.
That validates my entire point that the companies are hiring less people..., as technology does more and more jobs in all industries and every walk of life.
Then you mention jobs that have been greatly impacted, but say people have moved on to other jobs. Yes they did, but many of their new jobs, like their previous job, are slowly and incrementally being impacted by automation and A.I.
As technology improves it’s impacting more and more jobs. People are being replaced. You some how think most people will be able to run off to some other job that will not be impacted by automation or A.I. That’s complete nonsense.
What you are really arguing is an old augment that would have been true 30 years or more ago, but what was true then is not true in the future. It may be some what true today since at the moment automation, A.I. robots, etc... have not taken over everything. However, it will not be true 30 years from now at the direction we are heading.
You are arguing an old debate that’s already over. Read what guys like Ray Kurzweil, Bill Joy, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and even Mark Zuckerberg say about it. They all take different sides of it and how they think it will play out, but all agree technology, Automation, A.I. and robots will for the most part take over most jobs. The problem is that it will create a large welfare class.
You have been hoodwinked lock, stock and barrel. You are obviously still asleep. The arguments you are making is nothing I have never before or considered.
One last point.
You are better off listening to the guys that built products and are heads IN THE INDUSTRY like Bill Joy, Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil or Bill Gates vs. a college Professor that lives in an Ivory tower. It’s a lot like taking economic advice from Antifa that lives in their mommy’s basement.
Haha! (Shaking my head)