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I'm not going to lie, the jobs numbers where several orders of magnitude more than I was expecting when I started looking it up. I'm personally struggling to find work because my field has been taken over by AI, but my point is that those numbers are a drop in the bucket compared to what they will be in 5 years. I might have gone a little overboard but what I really wanted to highlight is that all of the problems we're facing now are still just in that 5% and the remaining 95% are going to be much worse than we can imagine if we do nothing (which it seems like that's the plan).
I don't really care for AI personally. I 1,000% agree with you about not wanting agents forced on me or my private data used to train new models. I have used ChatGPT and Claude on occasion but it's kind of lack luster. Like it's almost useful for everything I've tried to use it for from surrogate social interactions to research assistant. It's too constrained and limited to be able to do anything really interesting. And I agree that there are some serious current problems that need to be addressed, especially worker displacement and data center build out. I just find it irksome how overstated or misattributed some of the issues are and also how little room there is for nuanced conversation about it.