Will AI take your job?

It will probably be as successful as Mr Chainsaw’s meme coin.

Bingo.

And when you have genuine sociopaths like Thiel in a position where they are in control of where all this AI malarkey goes, you can bet your life that it won't be good.

So what happens these people then the ones whose skills are no longer needed , like where will they go for jobs. Or will AI fix so many problems that economically things will become Utopian. I know no one had the answers but everything is changing so fast.
On a slightly different but still related topic my local Dunnes used to have the check out customer services staff in clothes department , now its gone. It’s all self service check out , it’s so horrible. So automated I try to avoid shopping in it now.

No doubt firms will leverage AI to reduce headcount. However we will also see new start firms built specifically around high AI input and low headcount. These will start displacing the SME sector. The mortgage question is tricky as the government will not want mass repossession but banks won't manage mass defaults. Is there anything to be said for another bail-out?

Ireland will be in a similar position to other countries in that there’s going to be disruption to jobs everywhere- not just Ireland. So this mortgage debt issue won’t be unique to Ireland.
Im not even sure a “bail out” will be possible this time - for me, the worlds wealth is starting to be sucked by my a few companies - AI companies - they’re the ones displacing traditional office jons- so logically they’re the ones that need to pay the costs of that job displacement - but that’s just not going to happen.

So we’re heading towards governments having little money because it’s citizens currently funding the national purse are out of work and unskilled in this new area that will employ fewer people anyway- so unlike the last recession, there is no longterm hope of people getting back on their feet- the only solution I can see is for the Trillion dollar companies that will emerge from this, to start paying governments so that they can pay their unemployed citizens. Like that’s gonna happen.

Maybe the ruthlessness of ICE and MAGA are now starting to make sense- it’s every country for itself

God knows what the 2030s will be like.

Soylent fucking Green.

https://fortune.com/2026/06/16/openai-financials-leaked-losses-revenue-profit/

Maybe AI might not be worth it after all. Hard to see this as investment grade. Though plenty of AI fan bois out there who wouldn't mind a Kool aid slurp

I'm not sure about bubble bursting. Definitely lots of money to be made. So some companies will make fortunes, others will fail.

I'm just guessing about robots really. Lots being tested in actual factories now like car manufacturers.

Apparently lack of data is a problem with robots so they're trained via simulation.

I mean more scaling up rather than "at scale", similar to how there was lots of hype about self driving in 2016 to 2018 but they're only scaling up now.

But there will definitely be humanoid robots with a type of "jagged" super intelligence soon, which will be interesting.

thank god we resolved issues such as climate change, thankfully theres no possible way such damage could cause extremely serious critical supply chain disruptions including food supply chains, and now we ai to the rescue!

and what supplies power to all these data centers, our power grids of course, thankfully we dont have to worry about those, isnt that right!

All sensible means of valuation etc have been cast aside ...it was ever thus....its all on the premise that this is a sea change and will bring unbelievable wealth/power to the winners...but it needs to be on a certain timescale and things like this rarely operate to the desired calendar....there's a good smattering of a bubble/fever too..if anyone wants to read something related and if they haven't already they should read extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds...

I think, the tech absolutely evolves, is a game changer but I'm unclear on the timeline and I'm expecting a lot of AI companies to go bust and investors large and small to make very significant losses

The whole AI noise is pure bluster; the demand for AI is just not there like the large companies would have you believe and certainly the cost versus revenue generation doesn’t add up whatsoever (let alone looking at the energy demands needed to sustain this AI boom while we are in a climate emergency).

To put it another way; AI wouldn’t need so much hype if the products themselves could do the talking. Don’t get me wrong, it has some brilliant use cases but it doesn’t seem like it is going to make a lot of money for companies using it themselves.

true, but the reality is, ireland isnt gonna do this quickly enough, nuclear is decades away for ireland, unfortunately its looking like we re gonna start running out of energy soon enough, possibly as soon as the 30's/40's, so get ready for frequent blackouts!!

unfortunately ireland is a strongly anti-nuclear country, so getting a reactor through the planning process, even if theres significant changes to legislation, will be virtually impossible for probably decades, but at least there will continue to be rapid development globally in the technology, so when ireland eventually comes on board, far superior nuclear tech will be available to us, but again unfortunately, in regards maintaining a functioning grid, its looking like, we ll probably be experiencing regular blackouts by that stage.

yes we need data centers, for a multitude of reasons, not just for ai tech, but for critical social and economic functioning, but our grid cant cope with the rate of expansion of them, leading me to believe, this will all reveal itself in frequent blackouts in the near future, possibly as soon as the 30's/40's, noting, we re already starting to experience regular brown out events, so this is gonna get very tricky soon enough