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From the current data, sure, things are fine. But societies and economies take decades to adapt to technologies. This article is like writing in the early 90s
by FinnLobsien 1y ago
From the current data, sure, things are fine. But societies and economies take decades to adapt to technologies.
This article is like writing in the early 90s that "Newspaper circulation is actually stable"—true if you're looking at a still, not true if you're watching the movie.
The "AI takes your job scenario" doesn't look like a company replacing your entire team with AI. It looks like the AI-enabled upstart with 100 people competing with your 2000 person company until it fails or replicates the AI-powered strategy.
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Overall, I think this is a time of great upheaval (the combination of AI and post-ZIRP hangover) and we'll need to challenge a lot of the assumptions we had about careers and making money.
- seec 1y agoExactly. People looking at a direct 1-to-1 replacement are thinking about it the wrong way. Like you said, newspapers didn't get replaced by another kind of newspaper, various web media took their place. I was talking about this kind of thing with my father the other day. He was telling me about a friend working in communication work in a very old school way (the Adobe softwares he uses are pre Creative Cloud). He is losing business to youngsters who offer the same kind of product/results for cheaper. Not just because they are young and lack skills but because they use AI to generate stuff that takes him a long time to do. Now he doesn't care because he is close to retirement but the future for people like him is uncertain. It's pretty clear that over time AI will replace all kind of white-collar work with a crazy efficiency. Now the question is, what will replace those jobs and can we even replace them in our highly automated efficiency world?