The big problem is, what jobs will be available for all the stupid and unmotivated people?
More undertaker jobs?
Many of these jobs will be gone anyway as the democRATS raise the minimum wage again and again. Kiosks and tablets, instead of persons, are already in many fast food places. There are machines that can make 300 hamburgers an hour. Many entry level workers have already encountered the true, real minimum wage: $0.00 per hour. States not run by democRATS may be able to resist the minimum wage insanity.
America is still the land of opportunity, as demonstrated by the ongoing invasion. Almost everyone wants to come here. If American entrepreneurs are allowed to create and innovate, we will overcome the democRATS and their damages.
If America eventually declines, those same entrepreneurs and innovators will follow SpaceX and the new frontier will expand ever outward. People from York and Jersey founded New York and New Jersey. Our descendants will found New America.
Let the brainwashing in favor of AI begin. Pretty soon it will even create itself.
New technology always does.
They said the same things about automation 100 years ago...automation has created far more jobs than it cost. Same will likely be true of AI.
AI is already a side-hustle for me so as far as I’m concerned... Yep! It created one more job than it took. lol
Not in the fast food industry.
AI will select companies in which to invest. Companies not chosen, will lose investors and thus lose employees.
I remember a documentary where they showed many humans in battle with A.I. That kept everyone busy.
I have been studying AI in my industry. (Manufacturing and machining.) I am super excited about it. Yeah sure SkyNet can kill us all but until then embrace the tech and use it for your own benefit. One of my products is production automation. I have used the various AI ‘chat’ programs and they can churn out an automation program in Python, C++ and PLC in minutes doing what use to take me weeks. It is amazing explaining to a chat robot troubleshooting problems and having it completely rewrite a new code I can copy and paste in to an Allen Bradley controller fixing the bugs. And with all the open source Linux based AI tech I can create my own AI tailored system in days.
What if monkeys...?
When I started in the oilfield nearly 50 years ago now there was no automation on the drilling rig. A big accommodation module on an offshore rig was 100 to 120 or so. That was on a really big rig.
The rig floor was a dangerous place with the crew right at well center over the rotary table when moving pipe. People got hurt but they learned to watch out for themselves and others. Safety culture with good people was real and they took a lot of responsibility for all going home safe.
Sometime in the late 90s a lot of automation showed up. First it was the iron roughneck then automated pipe handling systems. We had more and worse accidents at first. Sometimes the machines went rouge and if people were in the way then just got crushed. Eventually that got better and became less of a hazard. Zone management, safe areas.
After rig floor automation came rig monitoring systems and smart systems and a huge wave of data acquisition. People had a lot more data but most were overwhelmed and knew less about what was going on than they did before when they had to stay on their toes and do all their own thinking. Some displays, when learned, did help thinking. There also had to be more techs to keep things running well and since the oilfield is a dirty place sensors had trouble sensing correctly requiring lots of attention. It got a whole lot worse when the systems went down. It was a lot like what happens in any number of airplane crashes when the smart systems go down or sensors fail and deliver strange results. When that happens the crew is often caught flat footed trying to make sense out of something they have not been watching because computers were doing that. Not only do they have to become pilots again and immediately in a bad situation but they also have to make sense out of the senseless.
A good operation still had and I believe has a really good, experienced and savvy driller and company man plus support cres. Both were still indispensable no matter how many smart systems there are. i think it is much the same way for airplanes and other stuff. I wouldn’t know about those though since I’m just an old drilling engineer.
Accommodation modules went to handling over 200 people when I retired and often that was not enough beds. A lot of the bed space was for new electronic techs. Jobs were added on the rig, not lost when the oilfield automated. The new jobs required more education and paid a lot more than the old jobs that still didn’t go away and so their wages increased as well for the sake of parity. Everybody talks. Everybody knows what everyone else makes.
With all the added people moving back and forth offshore and much further out than ever before the helicopter flights became a much bigger safety concern. All my really big problems had two feet and legs. More people, more complexity, more mouths to feed and people to keep happy and productive is not an improvement in my eyes without a really really big benefit that I did not see.
Just my thoughts. YMMV.
I’ll add that I don’t believe AI is capable of Gestalt.
I’ll predict that an army of thinking, reasoning, experienced and very hard working people will be needed to repair the flaming screw ups created by AI.
I’m just wondering if it won’t concentrate wealth in the hands of few and fewer people and at greater speed. With that will come greater influence and power. What good is a job if you are enslaved or not free?
AI is going to spark another industrial revolution on a scale that people simply can’t imagine.
Did AI write this article?
Each technological advance has been accommodated by changing society more and more rapidly and making it more complex.
A faster rate of change requires new roles to cope with change. For example, more computer programmers are needed to create new systems for new products and services being introduced.
Complexity also introduces new roles. For example expanded HR organizations to cope with ever more complex legal and regulatory rules.
I’d expect AI to intensify both of these trends. There will be massive dislocation, but there will not be massive unemployment.
Gotta have the labor to put together the Skynet system.