I have seen so many articles, tweets, posts, etc. in the past few months about AI eradicating all jobs or something along the line, and robots eliminating all needs for human labour.

And then I look at all the jobs that I have worked on.

Good luck using AI to get through government bureaucracies. I am sure ChatGPT get help you navigate all the regulations, apply to all the licenses automatically, comply with regulations etc. I am sure when a company is fined millions they can just say “but…ChatGPT say this can work!”

Good luck telling the CEO to use AI assistant. I am sure the 70-years-old CEO would prefer shouting to a phone which may tell them the idea does not work instead of shouting to a group of employees who would nod nervously and then implement the ideas while ignoring the bad parts.

Good luck replacing humans with robots. The maintenance costs of hardware and software on an army of robots which needs fuel and electricity and probably internet connection MUST BE lower than hiring labour at minimum wages. Right? Did I forgot to mention that human can takes care of themselves?

Remember that the society is run by humans. Even the rich and the powerful are human and have human needs. They would want other people to work for them.

What if a singularity AI took over the world? I mean if that is possible and the society fail to prevent such an event from happening then humanity deserves to perish anyways. Also please don’t tell me you believe in Roko’s basilisk.

Stop worrying and start living your life!

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This misses the key advantage of AI to businesses: lower total overhead through AI. You’re acting as though every job lost to AI will be replaced with another job opening somewhere else, but that hasn’t been true for efficiency automation historically (sorry horses), unless you’re talking about jobs that aren’t in the same field, in which case you’re just pulling a “learn to code”.

    There will be people who have 10+, 20+ years of experience whose jobs will be lost, and they can’t just start over from square 1 in their careers.

    The former makes us freeze in fear, the latter allows us to take action.

    Thanks, LinkedIn.