The thing is the job losses are not related to how well AI can do a job, they're related to how well a stupid person thinks they can do a job.

Those are wildly different things.

EY-Parthenon, a division of the global accounting firm EY, polled 50 Canadian business leaders from large companies for its latest Canada CEO Outlook survey. The results show some executives are eyeing smaller, more productive workforces with the help of AI.

Only 50 people were surveyed. I don't know if that can really be representative of anything.

Anyway, 23 of them are hoping AI will let them cut staff.

Time for UBI funded by business profits.

No it's not. The apocalypse for jobs is already realized and will get much worse. Look at the tech industry and tell me the hundreds of thousands of job losses aren't happening I guess?

The only thing slowing adoption of LLMs as a replacement for people is the cost.

AI should pay taxes for shrinking payroll.

What a wonderful economic system that requires constant growth. /s

Jobpocalypse has been happening since the 70s.

The key question is not simply how many jobs AI has replaced so far, but how rapidly its capabilities are expanding and how many occupations will be affected. Time to start seriously planning to implement a national guaranteed income program funded by business.