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There are a lot jobs that a computer simply cannot do, because they are not humans. Especially the ones that require human contact and interaction. Until we have a robot that can mimic a human those jobs are safe. The jobs that require you to make calculations or provide input into a computer are most at risk.
And I know the companies are being taxed, that’s why I said let’s tax them.
Can you name 5 jobs where human contact is strictly necessary and I'll see if I can explain how AI will replace those people anyway?
Social worker
Psychotherapist
Teacher
Nurse
Lawyer
Bonus: Diplomat
Uh the first two mostly just talk to people. Definitely getting replaced by a chatbot soon.
Teachers already use AI to create lesson plans and grade tests. There's a huge push to use even more AI in schools. The human element of having a teacher present is valuable, but unfortunately not easily measurable in a short term study so I'm fairly sure teaching jobs will be axed. I mean you don't have to get rid or every teacher, just increase class size 4x and you can already get rid of 75%.
Nurses, like I've mentioned before, will be there just to do the physical tasks. IVs, shots, etc. AI will decide what painkillers to administer, etc. Then nurses can be paid half as much and you'll need half as many. Automate the meaningful part of the job, leave the easily trainable.
Lawyers are already using AI en masse. It's resulting in loads of crap, but it won't for much longer. Just need appropriate MCPs to validate citations. The issue at present is using a regular chat interface target than a tailored agent.
Diplomats (and similarly, CEOs) indeed can not be replaced. Those jobs require consuming alcohol with other parties at the negotiating table, which AI can't do.
For most jobs, AI will just automate the thinking and decision making parts. Someone else needs to sign off and/or do the physical parts, but that means you can lay off most of the workforce and reduce the remaining part's pay since the job is streamlined and unemployment is high.
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Yes.
No.
You're assuming corporations will wait until the robots are capable of replacing humans before replacing the humans with robots.
There’s still rules and shit. Maybe not in the US, but here you can’t simply replace a nurse with a dysfunctional robot. You need to prove it works.
I wonder what country's workforce the MIT expert was talking about when he warned or AI replacing jobs.
You're right though, they're not replacing nurses with AI. They're just eliminating the positions, forcing those who are left to pick up the extra work, and closing rural hospitals.
Nowhere does he or the article mention a country and “Gen Z” sounds like a pretty broad term, don’t you think? There are more places in the world besides the US.
And anyway, I’m not talking to him, I’m talking to you. And since AI exists outside the US as much as it does in the US, what I said applies to the entire world.
Okay, that's great for everyone outside the US who aren't going to be losing their jobs to AI.
Not sure if that's much of a consolation to the literally millions of people in the US who are losing their jobs, or unable to even enter into the workforce.
No need to be so fatalistic. They can still do the more meaningful jobs where they work for people instead of a company.