Actually, there’s a lot of evidence that we’ve reached an inflection point where jobs really will be displaced in aggregate. Since the industrial revolution, automation has displaced some jobs but created more of others, and in larger numbers. That’s been pretty consistently true, with exceptions that are small and not overly impactful.
But just one AI-related technology is poised to be the first exception: self-driving vehicles. The number of people who are employed by driving/piloting things is gigantic, and the projections for the jobs that technology will create are tiny in comparison. That one thing could be so impactful that we have to go to a new paradigm for our economy because too many people won’t have work. That’s just one AI-driven technology.
Actually, there’s a lot of evidence that we’ve reached an inflection point where jobs really will be displaced in aggregate. Since the industrial revolution, automation has displaced some jobs but created more of others, and in larger numbers. That’s been pretty consistently true, with exceptions that are small and not overly impactful.
But just one AI-related technology is poised to be the first exception: self-driving vehicles. The number of people who are employed by driving/piloting things is gigantic, and the projections for the jobs that technology will create are tiny in comparison. That one thing could be so impactful that we have to go to a new paradigm for our economy because too many people won’t have work. That’s just one AI-driven technology.