Will AI take your job?

AI is going to change things, but what does that mean? New technologies always do.

About 2 weeks ago I was talking to a mid-head honcho who works in IT for a large retailer; they had outsourced some work to indian, even though it was not working as the consultants said it would. The management group promoting it kept doubling down on it, working out.

The real issues turned out not to be tech or anything similar; it was cultural, the outsourced indian tech workers would not admit to not understanding what was being asked of them, so they said yes to things they didn't know how to do.

What has that got to do with AI taking someone's job

True : my real point, though, is that humans are very bad at predicting what issues are of concern; all the research, money, and policy in the 1970s on the issue of a population explosion, which was going to devastate the world, largely turned out to be nonsense.

But Ireland does that, we get the corporation tax from these organisations global operations. If they were to be "properly taxed" Ireland would just get a fraction of what it gets now because other countries would also be taking their share.

Ask AI to explain some made up nonsense, and it tries soooo hard to explain it back to you, as if it is real.

Which is why it can't be trusted, at all.

So called "AI" is just a data scraper and too many people are blindly buying into what it regurgitates back at them. I once asked an AI "when was the battle of Stalingrad" and it told me it was in 1943. Now the battle carried on into 1943, but the bulk of it was in 1942, which the AI completely neglected.

In short, nobody should be relying on any AI program for information. And if you do get info from it, make damn sure you corroborate it with, at the very least, another non-AI source.

True : my real point, though, is that humans are very bad at predicting what issues are of concern; all the research, money, and policy in the 1970s on the issue of a population explosion, which was going to devastate the world, largely turned out to be nonsense

It wasn't nonsense it's just that the population explosion concern has now become the climate change or climate emergency. The very fact that we have such a large population growth over last century and they now want middle class lives with all the material things has placed great pressure on the natural world. It's not politically correct anymore to talk about population explosion because it is mostly happening in developing countries especially Africa

But what will you do if/when it completely takes over your job and you're no longer needed? I face similar issues

It's still considered a huge threat. That hasn't gone away.

I asked AI about threats to humanity versus reality. There are loads of them, funny.

. The “Population Bomb”

• When: 1960s–1970s
• What people feared: Runaway population growth would outstrip food production, leading to global famine and societal collapse.
• Key figures: Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb, 1968).
• Why it didn’t happen:
  • The Green Revolution dramatically increased agricultural yields (high-yield crops, fertilizers, irrigation).
  • Birth rates declined worldwide as education, urbanization, and living standards improved.
• Outcome: Global population kept growing, but so did food supply and life expectancy.

Again, looking down on certain jobs through your own bias. The ignorance on display here is truly something.

Referring to early childhood workers and caregivers? So they are not skilled? Must tell them they have the “shitiest” job as well. It’s clear you know sod all about plumbing as well, if you did you might understand how complex and skilled it is.

But you keep judging other people’s careers choices from up high, you clearly know best.

The short answer is I don't know. Maybe I should ask ChatGPT for career advise.

At the moment I spend most of my day copying code from AI. I used to like my job, but it's pointless now.

What did farm labourers do when tractors came in? or garment makers when their jobs went? Hopefully there'll be new opportunities.