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Sam Altman: “Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop.”
- MattGaiser 3y agoJobs have always been eliminated by new technology, but that also has never lead to permanent mass unemployment. The fear of technology creating mass unemployment on a permanent basis has been a persistent one over the centuries. If you went back to the 1800s and told the government of the day that in 200 years, virtually nobody in the UK would work in the textile industry, they would be horrified and imagine a world of thousands upon thousands starving in the street. They would make plans to build more workhouses, send more people to the colonies, and clamp down on immigration. If you went back about 100 years ago and told the people of the United States and Canada that there would only be agriculture jobs for 1% of the population, there would be riots as a plurality of the population would fear being pushed below even their relatively marginal living as farmers. They would fear mass starvation. Neither of those came true. Humans found plenty of other things to do. And those other things provide an immensely higher standard of living than textile making or farming.
- JimtheCoder 3y ago"A lot of people working on AI pretend that it's only going to be good; it's only going to be a supplement; no one is ever going to be replaced," Altman told the magazine. "Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop." I don't think the issue is whether jobs are going to go away...it's more the magnitude that people are trying to understand. Are customer service rep and data science jobs going to go away/get severely minimized, or is it the entirety of the white collar workforce? On what timescale? 5 years or 25 years? These to me are the big questions...