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Well if AI can replace software engineers then it can probably obviate many other jobs as well, meaning there would have to be greater societal restructuring th

Well if AI can replace software engineers then it can probably obviate many other jobs as well, meaning there would have to be greater societal restructuring than just some out of work engineers finding new careers. If you are 30 and you're worried your job will be automated away before you retire (but before universal income), perhaps you should get a head start by learning new skills that are harder to automate. I wonder what your alternate theory that fixes the unemployed 50 something factory worker is? Legislation that ensures job security? Pension? Severance?

toomuchtodo 10y ago
> Pension? Severance? Yes, funded by a tax on automation revenues.
dscalisi 10y ago
Which skills, for example, are harder to automate? You may have already seen this YouTube video as its a couple years old, but its premise is that we need to start thinking about what to do when large swaths of the population find themselves unemployable through no fault of their own (since over 45% of the workforce holds jobs that are easy targets for automation in the near future). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU&app=desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU&app=desktop