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CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs

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Re: CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs

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It's an easy thing to say without giving specific time frames. At least when Elon makes grand pronouncements he risks getting it horribly wrong. "told investors in May that she could see its operations head count falling by 10% in the coming years as the company uses new AI tools." Here's a time-frame a bit more specific then "in the coming years", but still vague: "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May that half of…

> Following on from cutting down entry-level jobs must imply cutting down on all those next levels up as well Only if the amount of employees in each level is uniform. I.e. if there are more entry level jobs than senior that wouldn't necessary be true.

There are always more entry level jobs, and some number of those entry level staff will inevitably exit the field or fail to progress to senior levels.

The only fields where this is not true are where the entry level pipeline has disappeared, but that’s a temporary effect because those more senior people will eventually move on also.

Re: CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs

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Yes? What do you think technological advancement does?!? It removes work. Now, if you say that unlike for every other time there isn’t more opportunity created…I guess you have an interesting point. But yeah — duh. I don’t know many assembly programmers. They’ve been “wiped out.”

> I don’t know many assembly programmers. They’ve been “wiped out.”

I know quite a few. Turns out there’s still a lot of value in understanding how computers work.

They make enormous amounts of money reverse engineering binaries and developing exploits for sale, mostly to governments.

Re: CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs

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post #7

It's an easy thing to say without giving specific time frames. At least when Elon makes grand pronouncements he risks getting it horribly wrong. "told investors in May that she could see its operations head count falling by 10% in the coming years as the company uses new AI tools." Here's a time-frame a bit more specific then "in the coming years", but still vague: "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May that half of…

In the not-too-distant future, AI could replace up to 47% of jobs or more!
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