Will AI take your job?

VertBlue · 05-06-2026 10:37AM

Anthropic calling for a global pause on the AI arms race..scary

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0605/1576867-anthropic-ai-development/

amacca · 05-06-2026 11:17AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124525872#Comment_124525872

Am I being defeatist when I say even if Anthropic are 100% genuine with this, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of that actually happening...

No one is going to pause now, how do you verify the US or China or another nation/actor aren't going to push on etc etc

At least it won't happen until some disaster occurs

VertBlue · 05-06-2026 11:23AM

I completely agree, now the cat is out of the bag there is no chance of putting it back in

But the fact that one of the leading players is saying this is worrying

bored65 · 05-06-2026 11:26AM

It’s just clever marketing by Anthropic they’ve an IPO later in year where proclamations like this won’t matter as they would have to deliver growth quarter after quarter (to their credit there be business books written about their explosive growth and out competing OpenAI)

amacca · 05-06-2026 01:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124526012#Comment_124526012

The cynic in me thinks it's largely marketing too.....ooh, our model is so powerful we are afraid to release it

Let's call for a pause etc etc

The narrative changes based on what gets traction and they have chosen a lane when not allowing targeting to happen and thus allowed/decided open ai choose another in the minds if the public

Good bit of game theory informing actions if you ask me

However if it is 100% genuine , then yep it is worrying...

eightieschewbaccy · 05-06-2026 01:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124526417#Comment_124526417

It's just for the IPO alright. I do think we need serious regulations on AI but can't see it happening any time soon tbh.

magicbastarder · 05-06-2026 02:19PM

re the thread topic, i learned that a friend of a friend recently was made redundant, AI was given as the reason. i heard it secondhand so i don't yet know whether it was his role specifically which was impacted by AI or the business as a whole. he worked in video production.

Tony EH · 05-06-2026 02:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124526529#Comment_124526529

This type of thing is going to become more and more common.

amacca · 05-06-2026 04:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124526539#Comment_124526539

And a certain percentage of layoffs will have f all to do with AI....in a way the bigger impact in the short term and not just in the the future is/will turn out to be the jobs that don't exist anymore and the people that don't get hired into them...

Quin_Dub · 05-06-2026 05:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124526529#Comment_124526529

Anyone being told they are losing their job to "AI" is probably being lied to at the moment to be honest.

At best they are losing their job because the company wants to spend the money on deploying AI not that they are actually replacing the work yet.

At worst , "AI" is a great excuse for under-performing companies to cut costs - Far better to say "it's AI" than have to say "We're losing money"

herbalplants · 05-06-2026 11:06PM

Is anyone being told back to office full time from working remote for 3 days a week because.. Wait for it.... Working with AI can't be done remotely 🤣🤣🤣.

Sounds to me more of BS tactics to get rid of people.

El Gato De Negocios · 05-06-2026 11:21PM

The CEO of Chubb (one of the biggest insurers on the planet) said this week that he anticipates that within 5 years, they will be able to shed in the region of 20% of their workforce as AI automation becomes embedded. I work in the industry myself and even now im using it in some form or another on a near daily basis and there is a big drive from the US based powers that be to implement it and streamline tasks. Take something like document translation. I use a tool called Deep L where you can upload any document (pdf, word etc) in any language and it is fully translated into English within 30 seconds.

I think in the next 20 years its going to have a devastating effect on the global workforce.

Pa ElGrande · 07-06-2026 07:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124526012#Comment_124526012

Yep, it's called the Barnum effect. Not the first time they tried this, same guy when at OpenAI pulled that stunt. Brendan Dell outlines. Game-plan appears to be cash out and let the public shareholders and our pension funds eat the losses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j6dQK_MggU

Manach · 07-06-2026 09:29PM

Slightly tongue in cheek, but any AI that attempted moderaton on boards.ie would suffer such a logic implosion it would ruin the underlyng LLM data set.

babyducklings1 · 08-06-2026 02:32AM

Is there any posssibility AI will become too logical for its own good?

We as people are imperfect and falliable and we learn by our life experiences and mistakes and that’s ok isn’t it. If a machine is now doing all the thinking and reasoning are we finished? Ok maybe not so bad for people say thirty plus but younger ones starting out, if AI is what people will be using constantly then will people have any reasoning power/ analytical skills or capacity for such left?

Also see some universities scaling back on Arts degrees. See a bit on this in the news this week in UK also think it might have been mentioned about arts in Galway. We are living through mad changes.

bored65 · 08-06-2026 07:49AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124532299#Comment_124532299

I assumed it already has 😂

/ ducks

silliussoddius · 08-06-2026 05:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124532299#Comment_124532299

AI = Actual Irish

GHendrix · 08-06-2026 08:16PM

AI will probably crash the economy eventually. Companies will use it to lay off lots of staff. When the numbers go high enough, lots of people stop paying mortgages etc. Governments won’t be proactive. They’ll wait for the crisis to happen before they even start really speaking of it. Who knows where it goes from there

CatLick · 08-06-2026 09:06PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124534872#Comment_124534872

On the other hand, I was talking to a tech industry mate last night. His firm have enforced token limits far lower than in previous months. AI companies are pushing through more realistic prices and it's more expensive now by a mile. Humans may not be out of the game yet.

BP_RS3813 · 09-06-2026 11:36AM

The fact that it got this far is a f*cking disgrace. The technology should have been strangled in its infancy.

Also anyone could have seen they were using the 'lose money to get everyone hooked then jack prices once there is no other option' strategy. Same sh*t the taxi companies did.

arctictree · 09-06-2026 03:02PM

I am looking at upgrading to gpt5.5 from 5 and to be honest, I cant see that much difference except its 3 times the price! I wonder will they start downgrading the older models to increase revenue and force people to upgrade?!

aidanodr · 10-06-2026 09:04PM

Closer and closer to Terminator/Skynet?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/

Tony EH · 10-06-2026 11:17PM

The words "fully autonomous drones" sends a shiver up my human spine.

amacca · 11-06-2026 08:41AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124536885#Comment_124536885

Highly likely I'd say...have to recoup ones investment!

magicbastarder · 11-06-2026 09:14AM

if AI doesn't take my job, AI will take my climate.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-in-talks-to-lease-10gw-data-center-from-sb-energy-in-ohio/

OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio

to put that in some perspective - current system demand in ireland is 4GW. the max demand ever in ireland was 6GW. you could power ireland twice over on the amount of electricity this would consume.

according to the article, the fuel source will be natural gas.

df_h · 13-06-2026 06:31AM

Trump just sunk Anthropic and AI industry hours after his best buddy got his trillions

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

Oscar_Madison · 13-06-2026 07:33AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124532734#Comment_124532734

“We as people are imperfect and falliable and we learn by our life experiences and mistakes and that’s ok isn’t it. If a machine is now doing all the thinking and reasoning are we finished?”

While I wouldn’t even begin to predict the future with AI, I can already see that AI has made many roles in the business knowledge economy industry pretty much redundant - EVERYONE now has access to information that in the past was limited either through university qualifications or company specific resources.

Expertise is still required but not on either the scale or cost previously charged - getting to a good first draft of anything has eradicated a load of jobs and time. You still need people and expertise to steer the business in the right direction - but not nearly as many

amacca · 13-06-2026 12:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124547574#Comment_124547574

The counter is that business themselves will change to match the new reality...

I'm unsure, there are examples of numerous new types of jobs that emerged alongside the emergence of new tech....there are also plenty of examples of there being much less jobs in a particular area/sector

There are also examples of complete collapse and demographic cohorts or their equivalent only getting backbto parity many decades later...

You are spot on not trying to predict....

I wouldn't either....but what gives me pause for thought is the iterative nature of it....its ability (without intelligence) to churn through multiple possible solutions (sort of like a brute force attack but with nuance) and bring together different approaches to solving a problem without the same level of or limitations of a human working in a specific area, identify connections.....it could have a profound impact on science/speed up discovery etc etc....it could be the spark to advances in other areas....what about when it's able to improve its own programming (if we are not already at that stage)

Brave new world imo.....but you can see its increasingly being weaponised

Tony EH · 13-06-2026 03:35PM

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/06/10/ai-owned-companies-argentina/

…and some people say that there's nothing to worry about.

amacca · 14-06-2026 01:54AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124548295#Comment_124548295

What could possibly go wrong?.......is the guy competing for king of the Darwin awardees....

Will AI take your job?

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