Why are you so confident YOUR job will be the exception?

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Anonymous wrote:Every cop you pass is safe. People need to think differently when they talk to their children about future employment.

Haha, no. Only personal protection for oligarchs will be safe, and maybe soldiers. Municipal police will HAVE NO MONEY. All of these jobs that’s people advocate, like hvac and police, depend upon a productive class earning profits that scale and flow down to the rest of society. Well they are shrinking that population and keeping more profits, so good luck to the rest of us.

Maybe the population shrinking is a good thing, no idea why the right is trying to spur more babies

Keep thinking this way. You’ll set your kid up to be replaced by AI. Great parenting. Cops, firefighters, paramedics, they’ll all be working and getting paid while accountants, coders, engineers, and most other white collar workers will be visiting food pantries. It’s horrible, but inevitable.

I like the oligarch security angle though. SWAT officers and U.S. Special Forces vets could make a lot of money in that line of work.

Yes all the oligarchs kids go to college…

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Anonymous wrote:Every cop you pass is safe. People need to think differently when they talk to their children about future employment.

Haha, no. Only personal protection for oligarchs will be safe, and maybe soldiers. Municipal police will HAVE NO MONEY. All of these jobs that’s people advocate, like hvac and police, depend upon a productive class earning profits that scale and flow down to the rest of society. Well they are shrinking that population and keeping more profits, so good luck to the rest of us.

Maybe the population shrinking is a good thing, no idea why the right is trying to spur more babies

Keep thinking this way. You’ll set your kid up to be replaced by AI. Great parenting. Cops, firefighters, paramedics, they’ll all be working and getting paid while accountants, coders, engineers, and most other white collar workers will be visiting food pantries. It’s horrible, but inevitable.

I like the oligarch security angle though. SWAT officers and U.S. Special Forces vets could make a lot of money in that line of work.

Yes all the oligarchs kids go to college…

It’s a box check for them.

Send your kids to college, or trade school, but don’t channel them into a profession poised to be replaced by AI.

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I'm not concerned about my specific job - marketing research in a leadership role, because most of my job is coordinating projects with internal staff and clients, presenting results of research, being involved in supporting sales. Yes, AI is increasingly a tool in my work but I'm at the higher level where relationships, communication, and professional judgement are key.

I am concerned about greater AI adoption killing the pipeline for young people in the field. A lot of the low-level work, where you learn the basics of the field and develop professional judgement, are the types of tasks more easily given to AI.

I think that's the case in a lot of fields. Companies that want to support that pipeline are going to need to be intentional about hiring/training and colleges will need to integrate more real-world experience so students come out able to operate at a higher level as a competent user of the AI tools not just the person AI can replace.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher, and I'm sure we won't be replaced by robots anytime soon, but we will be reduced to simple monitors of classrooms where kids sit and stare at a screen. It won't be any kind of good education, but no one cares about that anyway. It will be cheaper, and that's what will end up mattering.

And they’ll keep hiring more admin…

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you so confident YOUR job will be the exception? What's so specific about your job that AI cannot do? If you are in this privileged position congrats. I cannot say the same about my job. I am a Statistician and have been using more and more AI at my job. I am not a psychic and I cannot read into the future. However, I'll just say I'm blown away by the capabilities of the AI tools I am usingm.As a result, I am not going to be among the privileged ones who are so certain and confident that their jobs will be the exception.

To date, AI has taken very very few jobs. That may change. Mostly more than 10 years away. Even then they will take some but not all jobs. World will shift. New jobs will be created. The issues here are really overblown.

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Anonymous wrote:Lawyer here and there are some basic things AI can do but on the whole it’s terrible because a) it’s great at getting approximate answers but (so far at least) terrible at getting precise answers, especially those based on new facts; and b) high level lawyering is often an exercise in judgment and AI lacks that entirely afaict

AAA has AI Arbitrator for construction cases-- subject to human arbitrator oversight, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Because nobody wants to be a teacher.

Your job will be replaced by AI in the next 5 years.

Imagine each child has individual instruction via AI instead of a single person trying to teach a subject to the entire class. Kids will get a custom tailored 1:1 experience.

How’s AI going to handle the kid who comes to school with a fever, crying at his desk? How about the two kids picking on each other? What about the kid who refuses to do the assignment? I’m curious how AI will handle the three kids who refuse to stop talking so the remainder of the class can focus. Oops! And now a chair was thrown across the room.

Content delivery is just one part of teaching. Managing children is much harder, and AI can’t do it.

Right now the AI is really good if you upload an assignment and you ask it to give you differentiated assignments - one for the quick learners who get bored, One for kids who need more repetition. I was always terribly bored in school and I would have loved this and would have gotten so much more out of school. I was of the era where Ingotmtk be the teacher’s little helper- I graded papers and listened to the other kids read. But yeah as helpful as that would be for the kids I can foresee a situation with 90 kids and 90 screens and three “teacher monitors”.

I actually think once robotics advances it will be able to handle this. The main hang up with robotics now (lack of dexterity) shouldn't really be an issue with teaching except maybe for really little kids.

You are joking, right?

You can't possibly be this clueless with so little understanding of childhood development or human nature.

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I live in DC but work with people all over the world in my role. I’ve noticed two camps. One camp thinks they are so smart they can never be replaced and the other thinks AI will take over everything if we just use it more. They’re both wrong. AI will fundamentally shift everything more seismically than we can possibly imagine, but we tend to overestimate the short term impact and underestimate the long term impact.