AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk
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Re: AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk
#2we're giving you jobs! See that millionaire over there! Soon he'll afford a yacht! Who will build the yachts? You! Who will clean the toilets! You! Can't you see, we won't run you out of a good job, we'll run you into the dirtiest jobs!
Re: AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk
#3I don’t see a whole lot (if any) of optimism in the article. Of course the oligarchs would put out a grand vision of AI. Too many similarities to Rapture (Bioshock).
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Re: AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk
#6Labor "shortage"? In a free market, wouldn't the price of labor, i.e. wages, rise to meet demand?
Re: AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk
#7Labor " shortage "? In a free market, wouldn't the price of labor, i.e. wages, rise to meet demand?
It’s not going to be instant. Just like we have housing shortages or unemployment.
Re: AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk
#8Labor " shortage "? In a free market, wouldn't the price of labor, i.e. wages, rise to meet demand?
Yeah, a shortage implies that the price of labor rises a lot
Not unimaginable, given that the bottlenecks seem to be concentrating on high-level direction, relational work, and expert verification
Re: AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk
#9"For instance we are already running out of people to lay off!"
Re: AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk
#10"For instance we are already running out of people to lay off!"
:)
At Amazon, due to their toxic work culture which led to high turnover, the joke was Amazon will run out of new hires, it will have to rehire previous employees.