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With strong AI, wouldn't 100% of U.S. jobs be at risk? On the bright side, as software engineers, I would think our jobs will be the last to go. My guess is a
by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
With strong AI, wouldn't 100% of U.S. jobs be at risk? On the bright side, as software engineers, I would think our jobs will be the last to go.
My guess is as a species we'll just find something else to do, just like we always do. Who knows, maybe inefficiency will become fashionable at some point.
- Florin_Andrei 13y ago> With strong AI, wouldn't 100% of U.S. jobs be at risk? On the bright side, as software engineers, I would think our jobs will be the last to go. If the strong AI is hostile, people tinkering with it might be the first to go - and not just as jobs. :)
- TheCoelacanth 13y agoYes, but realistically, we are no where near strong AI. We're getting pretty good at making AIs to handle single specialized tasks, even ones that we consider very difficult, but making a generalized AI that can handle any task a human can is probably not going to happen in the near future.
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoYes, you're probably right. I'm glad I didn't heed the advice of my grade 12 computer science teacher in 1991. He was convinced that we wouldn't need programmers in the future because we'd have AI which could write software for us.