US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
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Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#2Will the people wake up?
We need a modern take of the movie "They Live". Granted, any copy would not be anywhere near as good as the original, even for a B movie, but AI is really turning into skynet (but it sucks).
Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#3Will the people wake up? We need a modern take of the movie "They Live". Granted, any copy would not be anywhere near as good as the original, even for a B movie, but AI is really turning into skynet (but it sucks).
They Live was a product of its time. We live in our time, so instead we've got Sorry to Bother You.
Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#4I think people are blaming AI for a recession caused by trump’s tarrifs and the oil crisis. Businesses fear that oil prices may explode until enough of the economy enters a recession that oil demand decreases, and are already feeling the supply crunch
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#5It is quite clear that AI is only as useful as the person piloting it and therefore, if the job losses are due to AI, they are temporary. The C Suite folks spreading the batshit idea that AI can replace humans on LinkedIn will eventually lemming their way back to the correct side of reality.
I personally think that AI is being used as a convenient blanket to hide the plumes of smoke emanating from an economy engulfed in flames.
Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#6This is "AGI".
Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#7> A group of 18 occupations flagged by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as exposed to AI, accounting for about 10 million jobs, saw a 0.2% drop in employment between May 2024 and May 2025, according to annual data published Friday. That compared with an increase in overall employment of 0.8% over the same period.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2024/article/industry-and-occup...
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm
The article that flags AI risk still projects that the top 15 growth employment through 2033 contains software related jobs like Computer / Information Research Scientists, Data Scientists, Operations Research analysts.
Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#8It is quite clear that AI is only as useful as the person piloting it and therefore, if the job losses are due to AI, they are temporary. The C Suite folks spreading the batshit idea that AI can replace humans on LinkedIn will eventually lemming their way back to the correct side of reality. I personally think that AI is being used as a convenient blanket to hide the plumes of smoke emanating from an economy engulfed…
The problem is that the C Suite folks can hang onto their delusions longer than most people can get by without gainful employment.
Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#9Will the people wake up? We need a modern take of the movie "They Live". Granted, any copy would not be anywhere near as good as the original, even for a B movie, but AI is really turning into skynet (but it sucks).
They Live was a product of its time. We live in our time, so instead we've got Sorry to Bother You .
I'm not sure what 'film' America is trying to be but I've seen plenty of real life references that could have come straight from either the Handmaids Tale, Idiocracy, The Dead Zone or Civil War the past few years. Life does seem to imitate art sometimes.
Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#10The demand for cushy white collar desk jobs (which weren't around 30 years ago) is crashing. Rest of the world, not so much.