Will AI take your job?

Millions of admin jobs were eliminated due to the spreadsheet.

No they weren't.

A spreadsheet allowed the human to do their job more efficiently.

AI, on the other hand, is going to be doing the job instead of the human.

You really haven't thought any of this out have you.

a lot of ai sources of information are actually filled with mis and dis information, its sh1te, again, not all ai outcomes are sh1te, but a lot really is, yes future generations will be better, but again, some really is sh1te.

and again, if these future generations of ai become extremely good, which they probably will, they could cause a significant amount of unemployment, and potentially very quickly.

modern economies dont function very well with rapidly rising unemployment, covid showed us this, in order to maintain some element of functionality in our modern world, if ai causes this problem, we will have to implement extremely radical measures to maintain this functionality, this would mean attempting to address rapidly growing wealth inequality, thats already underway, and would very likely accelerate under such conditions. if this doesnt occur, its very likely we would experience catastrophic economic crisis/crashes, due to the instabilities induced from the expansion of this tech.

and if this rapid rise in unemployment occurs, whos gonna be doing all the consumption required to maintain economic momentum, including the use of ai tech?

theres still a lot of ai slop out there though, but i do realise next gen will be far improved, but the issues mentioned above, are still issues!

rapidly rising unemployment, and ai, wont work, not even for ai!

In the past new tech tended to replace labour etc not all but a lot...some manpower was replaced

Now what we are in the process of replacing brainpower....what's really left then ...where do we go? What do we have to offer

Remember they are working towards a general intelligence...not a narrowly defined focused competence...something that can apply itself faster and more competently to any problem

It could usher in a new age of abundance....it could decide we are not necessary

Even take plumbing....the classic example...we now have untethered dancing humanoid robots that look to me as if the could pass a physical Turing test or whatever the physical equivalent is....I'm sure they could do the plumbing if the had the intelligence

+ it's not domestic plumbing an artificial intelligence may be concerned with...

The more I think about it, the more I think we are playing with fire, call me a caveman if you wish

When you can get far more work done with q couple clerical officers rather than 20 then it results in job losses. Some of the jobs were transformed, some eliminated.

If AI can do just as good a job as a human then it's much easier and more viable to start a business if you don't hire humans. So set up your own business using AI if you find yourself out of a job.

No job was eliminated by an excel spreadsheet. So stop talking nonsense.

With regards to AI, however, we have already seen the impact that it is having on low level coding work and that is bound to affect people's employment prospects. And when AI gets more sophisticated, it'll have a negative impact on higher level jobs too.

And none of that is going to be pretty.

It seems some people will have to actually lose their job to AI in order for the penny to drop.

No job was ever lost a spreadsheet and I've been working them since the 90's. It's a remarkably silly thing to say. A spreadsheet doesn't do the entire job of an administrative role. I work with spreadsheets every day and they aren't going to replace me. They simply help me to track data that I've gathered, but they're not going to gather that data by themselves or fill themselves in or track the progress of a project. I have to do that work.

AI, on the other hand has the potential to replace, not just individual workers, but entire depts. because it will be able to do the actual work.

The fact that you are insistent on trying to make a bogus comparison between something like an excel spreadsheet and something as powerful as AI only shows that you don't really know what you're talking about.

You don't know what you're talking about kid.

Look, die on this silly hill if you want. You're only making yourself look foolish.

A million things that businesses do right now.

If it is a very small number of people making a billion with a laptop, then I agree with you. But an extreme concentration of wealth is one of the negatives already predicted. It doesn't mean the unemployed average joe with average abilities who has been laid off will be able to make a decent living with a laptop.

An AI business that you van set up. There will never be a small amount of businesses, that's as ridiculous as the predictions in the 1950's that there would only be a few massive computers in future.

If you categorise workers into 3 areas- Young New junior, middle aged experienced middle manager or Senior Manager- it’s the middle managers most exposed and impacted - it’s their jobs most at risk right now.

Why? Well, the young new people will have certain skills to adapt - they’ll be utilising the AI tools - fewer grads might be getting traditional grad programme jobs - but those who are, will likely do well as they’re starting out hand in hand with the technology.

Senior managers are decision makers - they need to understand the potential of the new technology- but they’re still needed at present, to direct and run the show and of course make decisions - there will be less of them in future - but for the coming few years they’re just about ok

It’s the experienced “doer’s” most at risk - their years of knowledge no less their skills is now pretty much redundant or will be very quickly .

The clever younger grads will make themselves invaluable by being able to do the jobs of many people by cleverly learning and using AI tools - they are the people who “might” survive - others definitely won’t - it’s time to learn how to unblock toilets and plumb washing machines because there will be a hell of a lot less jobs out there soon.

As for the civil service- resisting technology changes via union enforced rules might help shortterm but governments will cop on - I’d say many world leaders are having wet dreams right now pretending they’re Trump and Musk driving a chainsaw through their public jobs