The future is looking pretty grim these days...
Every job that isn’t physical labour in some way is in danger of being replaced by AI, as it grows and develops its capabilities. The billionaire class does not care because it is their dream to be rich and not have to pay anybody.
Starvation may make a comeback in the good old USA..
“There are entire careers with university degrees behind them that are ending now”
Did any of these credentialed egg-heads have any sympathy when robots took over manufacturing?
Well I certainly hope so 🤞
I am mostly retired, except for a part-time teaching gig that is mine as long as I want it. I am thankful I don’t have to worry about being booted out the door by “artificial intelligence”, and then finding something else that might also be made obsolete by “artificial intelligence.” It isn’t just jobs that are being made obsolete, but humans. What a nightmarish existence. People are made to work and, ideally, to find some satisfaction and sense of purpose in their labor.
i think of AI as the ‘great test taker.’ so anyone who has a job that relies on memory and test taking skills—that is, credentialing or expert-ism will be most at risk. anyone whose job relies on convincing your boss that you know a lot more than him about some specialized area will be at risk. so basically AI has the potential to be the great BSer of the world. thus, it has great potential to replace self styled experts.
it also, imho, has the potential to be the great questioner of humanity. thus, it threatens to replace (or perhaps augment) the devil in his main job, as the great prosecutor of humanity.
so if AI is given autonomy, judicial, or self-decision making power though, look out; a lot of bad things are going to happen. it will become the inquisition for the powers that be.
So who will buy all the AI created products if no one has a job?
I’m retired...IDK, and, IDC!
Another way to frame this is that AI will allow you to do the work of several people. Don’t think like an employee depending on someone to give you a job. Think like an entrepreneur who makes jobs.
Hasn’t it happened many times since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution that technological efficiencies have come along and replaced whole armies of workers? What is different about AI? Compare 1965 to today . A lot has passed away and a lot that is new and unimagined has come along.
Oh sure, Rosie the robot screws up George Jetson’s martini, so he slaps Jane in the mug for it?
Technology has always increased the rate of productivity. I don’t see this as any different, at least for now. E.g. - for software engineers, there’s still not enough of them, good ones at least. AI just lets them get things done faster. The result will be more software, not necessarily less engineers.
While I encourage my teams, in trying to find ways to use AI, there hasn’t even been a discussion about eliminating people. Certainly no plan to do so.
There’s already tens of millions of people in the USA who don’t work, never worked and are multi-generationally unemployed.
Biggest “business”” on the planet is the welfare state.
Can we stop with the “AI” hype?
Was it “AI” when we replaced bank tellers with ATMs 45 years ago? If so, maybe we could just go back to calling it computer processing or whatever.