IMHO in 5 years 90% of the software development jobs will be gone. Similar for many other positions in IT. I've heard people making plans to move into cyber/AI security, trades, stock/crypto trading.
How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?
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#2There's a lot of clarity to be gained by decomposing the question of "a living" into its parts.
How do you plan to continue the processes of gaining sustenance and economic power as needed? Do you own the land or capital needed for your sustenance or do you need to trade for them? If you need to trade, what assets or capabilities do you have to trade?
How well are these guarded against theft, cyberattack, romance scams against you, quasi-legal expropriation and changes in the legal system that eliminate your status of having property rights?
We'd better hope that robotic replacements for human hands aren't soon in coming.
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#4UBI
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#5The premise is flawed, I don't see AI taking jobs because companies want to grow in productivity generally speaking and would rather just make their existing employees do more; all productivity saving technologies have always been net positive in the amount of jobs created.
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#6fingers crossed!
If ai takes enough jobs from people.
we will all get together, start a revolution and overthrow our respective governments.
desperate people will do desperate things to survive
There are always more of us than them.
I truly hope that it happens in my lifetime. I really am sick of this shitty world.
Its not what I was promised 69 years ago when I was born.
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If my heat stops working then my heat starts working.
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#8The premise is flawed, I don't see AI taking jobs because companies want to grow in productivity generally speaking and would rather just make their existing employees do more; all productivity saving technologies have always been net positive in the amount of jobs created.
The counter argument to that is what happened with horses. Since domestication every advance of human civilization lead to having more horses. Until cars were invented and improved - which eliminated overnight 90% of the number of horses used.
So the fact that in the past new technologies have created new jobs is not a guarantee that AI will create new jobs.
On top of that have a look what happened say during the industrial revolution in Britain. You'd have a village with 2000 workers producing clothes or materials to make clothes. A rich guy opens a factory in that village that employees 200 people and produces more than the whole village before that. 90% are unemployed, the 10% that work in factory have far worse working conditions. Studying graves from that time shows the height of people went down during the industrial revolution - as the conditions in the factories were far worse than what they had before. Hence the luddite movement - but as the reach people owned the mass media, the luddites were portrayed as crazy. Eventually, many years later, new better jobs did appear.
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Those people may have armed robot guards.
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#10fingers crossed! If ai takes enough jobs from people. we will all get together, start a revolution and overthrow our respective governments. desperate people will do desperate things to survive There are always more of us than them. I truly hope that it happens in my lifetime. I really am sick of this shitty world. Its not what I was promised 69 years ago when I was born.
The governments may have by that time armies of drones and robots, controlled by a few loyal people or AI.