Will AI take your job?

amacca · 28-02-2026 10:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124271450#Comment_124271450

I'm a man and my initial reaction is apprehension...but that's a sample size of one I suppose..I see what the incentives were for social media and how that evolved...I see what the incentives are for AI companies and the broader geopolitical incentives and it makes me worried

I am also interested in what it can do ...from my experience and its confined mainly to Ireland and not particularly large groups of people so are women...but maybe there is something in what you say...its not an absolute rule but perhaps you do tend to find more men more interested in cars, machinery, watches, tech, things than women and maybe more women more interested in people etc....if that's not just me stereotyping

amacca · 28-02-2026 10:56AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124264903#Comment_124264903

I find many aspects of that scenario worryingly convincing.....

magicbastarder · 28-02-2026 04:02PM

on that note - hannah fry is presenting a new series about AI, and how people interact with it - it started this week.

she talked to the founder of Replika, which is a chatbot agent, and the founder (a woman) revealed she'd just stepped down from the company because of the way AI is going - and pointedly addressed the topic that she thinks men and women in the AI tech industry have different approaches. i'd have to watch it again for fear of misquoting her, but she seemed to suggest that men obssess too much about productivity and the technology and seemed less concerned about the human aspects.

it's also worth noting that the reason they were talking to her was that it was a Replika bot that this chap was interacting with, and the case formed the focus of a lot of the first episode, and Fry had challenged her in the program about where responsibility ended for Replika:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67012224

bored65 · 01-03-2026 02:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124271693#Comment_124271693

The author of the research piece linked higher up gave a good interview

https://open.spotify.com/episode/161MFWZd2NGGqjAjyiIXwX

Deep Thought · 04-03-2026 10:34PM

we use it in work…

Highly regulated environment

Every output has a caveat attached

AI output.. check for accuracy

Rarely is it fully correct and always needs human intervention to make corrections.

Will it replace me? I’m retiring

bnt · 06-03-2026 03:11PM

I work in "user-facing" IT support, and there's just no use for AI in that environment. I'm called whenever there's a need for a "human input", such as users needing reassurance that they aren't crazy when systems do things. That might change in the future, but AI in my specialty seems a long way off.

take everything · 10-03-2026 01:14PM

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1rkhady/opus_46_solved_one_of_donald_knuths_conjectures/

Donald Knuth, one of the great pioneers of computer science and the author of its bible The Art of Computer Programming, completely revised his opinion on generative AI here, after Claude Opus 4.6 impressed him by solving one of his conjectures in a very nice, creative way.

There is a pattern here of brilliant people being repeatedly surprised by this technology and its emergent behaviour.

take everything · 10-03-2026 02:01PM

Also from the singularity forum over there

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1rp4n2e/figure_robot_autonomously_cleaning_living_room/

A robot cleaning a living room. The movements and reasoning are pretty impressive. Where will this be in five years.

Oscar_Madison · 10-03-2026 08:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124285876#Comment_124285876

Great you’re retiring - couldn’t have picked a better time. AI can certainly help in a compliance environment but it still needs ooodles of oversight - but it can get you to places you need to get to quicker - like say for example policy documents, frameworks etc -

Flinty997 · 10-03-2026 09:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124264917#Comment_124264917

JCB isn't near Zero

df_h · 13-03-2026 01:53PM

A salary of up to a third of a million squid, not bad

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0313/1563159-anthropic-jobs/

Will AI take your job?

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