Posted on 01/10/2025 11:12:26 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Artificial intelligence is coming for your job: 41% of employers intend to downsize their workforce as AI automates certain tasks, a World Economic Forum survey showed Wednesday.
Out of hundreds of large companies surveyed around the world, 77% also said they were planning to reskill and upskill their existing workers between 2025-2030 to better work alongside AI, according to findings published in the WEF’s Future of Jobs Report. But, unlike the previous, 2023 edition, this year’s report did not say that most technologies, including AI, were expected to be “a net positive” for job numbers.
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I often drive past the local Switch data center.
It looks more like a prison or fortress than anything else.
Very tall walls, serious gates, and I am certain very serious security inside too.
When the serfs get fed up, taking down the overlords is NOT going to be easy.
Fortunate for me that I doubt it will affect me much, I’m already unemployable due to age and race.
I suspect that’s a lie. The clue is the date 2030. Right when the UN agenda 2030 is supposed to kick in with it’s socialism, set asides and reduction quotas.
I’ve already seen AI taking jobs that used to be “High tech”, or at least skilled and secure.
I expect that to accelerate, labor is the big cost in business, virtually every “Innovation” of late is directed at eliminating employees.
I’m sure it will and does take jobs..at first anyway. New things often don’t do well over the longer term. AI has many problems but what you should be worrying about is AGI (artificial general intelligence) It’s a whole different animal.
That aside my point is AI is going to take the blame from the article, for the social and political upheaval Agenda 2030 will cause by those who implement it.
I have done what I can.
Not off grid but very rural, am my own boss for better or worse.
Develeoping products that A, do not reoquire Gov. permission and B, are too niche to be ripped off by the Chinese.
Only expect to live another ten years or so, giving up caring so much and intend to play like it is my last days.
I hear you. Same boat here. And I’ve laways worked with my hands, a skill AI won’t be able to take..yet. I supposed if it pumps worker bots it could make it a race.
Anything that can be reduced to process steps may be vulnerable to AI. It’s just a matter of determining the steps.
Only books printed on paper prior to 2024 will be worthy of consideration.
I'm sure everyone has stumbled across crap AI generated websites and youtube videos.
Our near future, however, even if it runs true to history, might well prove a far more rapid and destructive force because the onset of technology in a digital world proceeds with breathtaking speed but changes in agriculture and the creation of whole new industries closely related to labor can occur only with turtle pace.
An even more challenging aspect of this potential "revolution" is the implications of removing income from work. In an era in which world demographic charts are aging even as they shrink in numbers, much of the goods produced will be done by robots under plans made by AI. Similarly, much of our service industries will be automated. Overall, we will be far more productive in the sense that we will produce more widgets and more services than ever but whole sections of society will be unemployed because in an age of AI they are simply unemployable and, where marginally employable as users of AI, they will be far less efficient than AI itself and eventually made redundant.
This will generate a dislocation of our entire economic system and, of course, put our economic system under extreme pressure to achieve some sort of equitable distribution of wealth. This strain will inevitably extend to our political world and threaten a constitutional separation of powers and render the Bill of Rights an impediment to realigning the world that AI has revolutionized.
This is a brave new world, wonderful for leftists who want to manage every aspect of our lives, who have long wanted to abolish our way of life to make way for their utopia. The power of economic dislocation in the 1930s threatened capitalism and democracy in America and did away with it in many countries around the world. The fast-paced and extensive dislocation that might be generated by AI will make the 1930s look like the era of good feelings.
Call me when AI can cure cancer…or tell me which stock to buy.
I went to my boss with a plan to substantially reduce the workload of our employees by automating the data reporting portions of our jobs, which were significant. I also had a list of things we could do in place of those all of which added value. Without even looking at the proposal he laughed and said, “You’ll be the first one I lay off.” What he had wasn’t a job, it was an empire. The empire had always been a certain thing, and that thing wasn’t going to change. About a year later the government took the money allocated to us and gave it to three upstart companies who had lower overhead. My boss was retained because he was part of a higher-up’s empire. My former boss’ title as a manager was important even though he had no one to manage.
The worker bees were all laid off.
There has been a proliferation of articles titled along the lines of “Bull Shit Jobs.” Often people are employed to fill out someone’s empire. See how important I am? I have fifty employees. The recent tech layoffs were mostly people who couldn’t, in ten words, say what they did for the company.
Learn to prompt.
bfl
Electricians will never be out of work. At least for the foreseeable future.
I have seen a lot of fake medical videos popping up on line with actors I think are not real, but I am not sure. It is hard to tell, but it seems “off” like a real person would not talk this way.
I saw a commercial with Sinatra and Davis Jr. in it.
It wasn’t crap. It may as well have been them.
TV commercial. It was amazing.
Well my last day was yesterday. They will claim AI, but in my case AI is the Indian’s initials.
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