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If you compare factory lines from 100-150 years ago, we've cut out around 90% of the workers. If you look at office spaces pre and post computers they have rou

If you compare factory lines from 100-150 years ago, we've cut out around 90% of the workers. If you look at office spaces pre and post computers they have roughly the same amount of people. AI is going to do to the office space what robots did to factories. It'll be a slow unnoticeable process for the most part. Automation of a single process may save as little as 5 minutes a day per workflow, but eventually it adds up to a position not getting rehired as it usually would have. Sure the AI business will create jobs, but not as many as it replaces and try telling a lawyer to go back to school to get a relevant education.

Nuzzerino 9y ago
In that case, I can't wait. Every office I've worked in lately has been overcrowded, noisy, and distracting.
- DougN7 9y ago
  Well, you likely won't have a job, so won't need to worry about going into the office. Sounds a little different when applied personally doesn't it?
  - Nuzzerino 9y ago
    Considering that my job is to do the automating, not having a job would be the least of my worries when that day comes.
Animats 9y ago
I keep wondering when we hit "peak office", the point at which total office workers starts to decrease. "Peak factory workers" in the US was in 1979.