Posted on 03/11/2024 1:06:24 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A new survey reveals that the relentless wave of tech industry layoffs combined with the rise of AI has fueled widespread anxiety over job security among American workers. More than 72 percent of Americans making more than $150,000 fear losing their jobs to AI and other sources of economic insecurity, while even 50 percent of those making under $50,000 feel the same way.
Fast Company reports that the constant stream of mass layoff announcements from major tech companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter in recent months has caused an atmosphere of uncertainty across the workforce. Compounding these concerns is the rapidly advancing field of AI and its potential to disrupt various professions. A survey conducted by online marketing firm Authority Hacker has put numbers to these mounting job security fears.
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I was going to say the exact same thing. For once, I actually read the comments before posting.
This applies to many fields and professions. You aren't going to stop AI from replacing people any more than we could have prevented automation and machinery from replacing people. While embracing AI might seem akin to training your replacement, those who do will be more relevant than those who refuse. Companies that don't embrace AI will not be competitive.
AI and automation will continue to replace human labor, and even human thinking. Research, Medicine, Law, Bureaucracy, Service, Driving, Labor, Military, IT, Education. A majority of the human jobs remaining can and probably will be replaced by AI and automation. The question becomes, what happens to people? Does Universal Basic Income become the standard for the majority of the population? A population living on whatever government provided income and benefits the government decides they need/deserve. Complete dependency = Complete obedience. Utopia for a few, dystopia for the rest.
Enough of this! There is no such thing as “AI”. There are incedibly sophiticated programs and databses but there is no such thing as “AI”. Heck, there is very little actual “I”.
Who’s going to pay for the damages when this thing hits the utility lines? What happens when it kills someone?
Same questions for self-driving cars & trucks. It’s a major unanswered liability question.
Robots in factories are one thing — you have safety cages and the robots have a limited reach, so the safety record is very good (but there was a guy killed not long ago, I think in Japan). But not huge robots like cars, trucks and excavators.
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