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I often see people say “AI can’t do ALL of my job, so that means my job is safe. But what this means at scale, over time, is that if AI can do 80% of your job,
by qgin 1y ago
I often see people say “AI can’t do ALL of my job, so that means my job is safe.
But what this means at scale, over time, is that if AI can do 80% of your job, AI will do 80% of your job. The remaining 20% human-work part will be consolidated and become the full time job of 20% of the original headcount while the remaining 80% of the people get fired.
AI does not need to do 100% of any job (as that job is defined today ) to still result in large scale labor reconfigurations. Jobs will be redefined and generally shrunk down to what still legitimately needs human work to get it done.
As an employee, any efficiency gains you get from AI belong to the company, not you.
- sram1337 1y ago...or your job goes from commanding a $200k/yr salary to $60k/yr. Hopefully that's enough to pay your mortgage.
- noisy_boy 1y agoI am more worried about the resultant breakdown of the social order due to the social pressures and hopelessness and it's ramifications. Which next-bonus-cycle CEOs don't give a shit about. UBI is just talk (which few are talking) and even that has issues.
- qgin 1y agoCurrently the United States is in the process of making Medicaid and SNAP / food stamps contingent on being employed. We’re further from UBI than we’ve ever been.