Gallup and Bentley University find that most Americans (75%) believe artificial intelligence will lead to fewer job opportunities in the next 10 years.
I’ve been following this issue (AI replacing jobs) for so many years, it’s fascinating to see it finally go mainstream. What’s especially striking to me is the bland summary at the end. It completely misses the implications of what the poll is talking about. The issue with AI and jobs is that AI as an employee will be cheaper than us. Thus, in a market-based economy we won’t be able to compete with it. As we move to AGI, which presumably will be able to do all jobs - where does this leave our current economic system?
There was a claim in the 00’s that outsourcing would eliminate jobs. Except there was still work to do fixing the outsourced code, and that was often higher level work than the initial task. Until we have real AGI we’ll have a similar situation with AI tools.
I’ve been following this issue (AI replacing jobs) for so many years, it’s fascinating to see it finally go mainstream. What’s especially striking to me is the bland summary at the end. It completely misses the implications of what the poll is talking about. The issue with AI and jobs is that AI as an employee will be cheaper than us. Thus, in a market-based economy we won’t be able to compete with it. As we move to AGI, which presumably will be able to do all jobs - where does this leave our current economic system?
There was a claim in the 00’s that outsourcing would eliminate jobs. Except there was still work to do fixing the outsourced code, and that was often higher level work than the initial task. Until we have real AGI we’ll have a similar situation with AI tools.
There are already jobs that have mostly vanished to AI, and there has been no new ones to replace them, and it has been going on for a while. CGP Grey did a great video about it years before the current controversy popped up.