Even the headline is wrong. Jobs have already started disappearing due to AI.

That’s why these pedo losers all built bunkers

Jobs have already been disappearing. Entry level programming jobs have been wiped out.

Jobs are already disappearing. What is the author talking about?

What I have noticed thispast year is that higher ups aren't really understanding the total cost of AI solutions. They go use sites to have conversations with the most powerful LLMs not realizing that your company is not going to afford that level of tech. Your current IT infrastucture can't add a few dozen high power/high cost systems to train the model for your business's nuance. It is never a build it and forget it problem.

Additionally there is a skill of humans being easily retrained for other tasks. Creating a Jack of All Trades will net you a great workforce with people filling roles when you have medical leave, turnover and business pivots. AI isn't general enough to make this change without major redesign.

The only "problem" with this amazing skill is that companies no longer run on the idea of employee retention. You get promoted by jumping ship. Working harder doesn't make the headway in a company like it used to 25+ years ago.

I work in IT and as such I work in AI because there's no getting away from the hype in my line of work.

But I don't believe in it and I think it can be very harmful for society. I see a few nice things about it (people with disabilities for example) but mostly negative.

To be honest I'm looking forward to the news of datacenters going up in flames. Which I'm pretty sure will happen when people start losing their jobs en masse.

Don't even need to imagine yourself; this is one of the foundational pillars of the worldbuilding in the cyberpunk genre.

I'm not really getting raises for a couple years, despite being a can do high performer. So now I just use AI to do mediocre work, and only work around 3-4hrs per day.

There are two big industries that are going to be the canaries in the coal mine, and be the first to take serious hits - Driving, and Fast Food.

Both Uber and Lyft make it clear on their websites that their future is an autonomous fleet, and they're testing heavily. Waymo has been testing for months, and is starting to roll out in many cities, including mine. Every one of those driverless cars is replacing a human job.

Further, many of the people driving rideshares, would be listed as unemployed, if they weren't able to eke out a meager living driving. Take away this job, and it isn't like they have a lot of options to pivot to. If they did, they wouldn't be driving. Those lost jobs are going straight to the unemployment rolls.

And what about truck drivers? That is another serious driving industry that is going to be fully replaced before long. Again, those drivers don't have a lot of other options.

Fast Food is the other one. Every fast food corp has been testing a robotic kitchen for years now, and I'd be surprised if even a single one isn't ready to roll out tomorrow. They are already getting us ready by both phasing in app use, and kiosk use, but also masking the kitchen area. It used to be that you could see the kitchens in fast food places, but new ones are hiding the prep area behind walls, where they can't be seen, because soon they'll all be automated.

Fast food is a traditional first job, or a second job, or a second income, or a supplement to retirement, etc. A LOT of households rely on fast food jobs, but within a decade, most of them will be fully automated.

Further, what will happen is that a robotic warehouse will load an autonomous truck, which will go to fully automated fast food outlets, where it will be robotically unloaded, stored, and eventually prepared, and served to a customer, without a human touching it anywhere along the way.

The tech to do all of that exists right now. The only reason they haven't done it is because they know the consumer backlash will be enormous, but they won't be able to resist the lure of all those new profits for too long, and somebody will finally take the plunge and be the first. They'll get savaged in the media, but then everyone will follow, and 10 years from now, every fast outlet will be automated, and millions of jobs will evaporate.

It's inevitable.

Lol please. America already gutted its entire industrial base to the point where there's a permanent shortage of blue collar jobs, and most people are working crappy wages in a service role for whichever megacorp owns the entire market.

AI could take over tomorrow and there wouldn't be enough people to care, despite getting utterly screwed over.

It might only get ugly if purchasing power collapses and causes solvency. Otherwise it'll just continue to degrade into an infinite debt economy which is basically just generational slavery like a significant portion of exploited labor and human trafficking already is.

Don't worry though, there's a million other problems that'll probably pop the bubble first anyway lol.

"If"? 🤔

Don’t name your kid Al

With no system to benefit the unemployed workers, means that there is no more government of the people. usa will have shifted into a dystopic technocracy and the "food wars" of the poors will be a good betting scenario for all those tech bros experiencing "ennui". I'm confused about the slash "s" here but will add it anyway. /s

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I wonder if there is a way to impose a tax if use, or better production, of LLM tokens. And that money could be spent ob social security.

Of course this is NEVER gonna happen 🤣

Bullish on scrap yards. Death to clankers.

Not saying the answer is space communism, but the answer is space communism.

Jokes aside, worker displacement is only a problem if displacement means not landing in an economy, a second parallel economy must be made to capture people so we don't all just succumb to homeless/moneylessness.

I actually like using AI in my workplace to rid the need for tedious data entry. But i realised that if I told people about it, the management might see that they may not need me anymore so i won't teach anyone how to efficiently use AI.

I imagine lots of ugly social media posts promising ugly things but probably not a whole lot else, since "Revolt" isn't a clickable item on a menu. I'm speaking only as an American - we've become a people who buy bags of pre-shredded lettuce and pre-grated cheese. You can't expect much action from us if it takes us very far from a phone charger.

Loss of jobs is a distraction. People can get other jobs. If jobs can be automated cheaply, they should be. The problem is how the economy treats people who need to switch jobs and what it means for their income. Automate truck driving, please, but make sure ex-truck drivers are taken care of and can move on to other jobs that need doing.

Edit: I'll make an exception for jobs that need human interaction. There is a limit to automating things like care or service jobs because most people also need human interaction. And give those people decision making power, too, not this "computer says no" hellscape customer service workers have to go through

Nothing will happen.

Frogs in a pot of water being brought to a boil.

Those in charge will handwave away the job losses and blame some other factor for the economic downturn other their own shortsighted greed while they cry for their bailouts.