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What's that saying that goes something like "People tend to vastly overestimate the impact of technology in the short run, and vastly underestimate its impact i
by hn_throwaway_99 5mo ago
What's that saying that goes something like "People tend to vastly overestimate the impact of technology in the short run, and vastly underestimate its impact in the long run." A lot of these comments here are making feel disdain for both extremes of the debate. I agree that AI has been used as an excuse for a lot of layoffs, but it also unambiguously has resulted in real layoffs - the Washington Post ran an article years ago, a few months after ChatGPT came out, about how some copywriters had been replaced by AI.
The technology isn't magic, it has limitations, but it's not that hard to see a large percentage of current jobs being made obsolete by AI - the BLS has already identified many such roles; https://www.inc.com/soren-kaplan/the-bureau-of-labor-statistics-just-flagged-18-jobs-ai-is-already-shrinking-is-yours-on-the-list/91346529 https://www.inc.com/soren-kaplan/the-bureau-of-labor-statist...
I don't think it will kill all white color jobs, but on the other side, declaring it a nothing burger seems like a lot of willful blindness given it already has replaced some people and AI's capabilities have grown legions since then.