Here in the USA, you have to be afraid for your job these days. Layoffs are rampant everywhere due to outsourcing, and now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient, but we really know what it is actually going to be used for. They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI. But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It’s not like you can train someone who’s a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse. So you have the entire tech industry basically folding in on itself trying to win the rat race and get the few remaining jobs left over…

But it should be pretty obvious that you can’t run an entire society with no jobs. Because then people can’t buy groceries, groceries don’t sell so grocery stores start hurting and then they can’t afford to employ cashiers and stockers, and the entire thing starts crumbling. This is the future of AI, basically. The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don’t have jobs and no income, not able to survive…

Like, how long until we realize how detrimental AI is to society? 10 years? 15?

  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient

    sounds good

    but we really know what it is actually going to be used for

    Contradicts the first statement and the next statement

    They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI.

    OK you do know what they want to use it for.

    But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It’s not like you can train someone who’s a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse.

    Highly untrainable people have always existed and are always the first to get replaced.

    But it should be pretty obvious that you can’t run an entire society with no jobs.

    Well not one based on capitalism.

    The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don’t have jobs and no income, not able to survive…

    Well the ones that can’t do research and can’t look up history maybe. AI is the new Robots, is the new assembly line is the new…

    You are just using the age old technology fear narrative.

    When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites (2017)