What are you guys doing to prepare for AI? Backup careers? Talking to kids?

[Anonymous]

Fact is, if you or spouse is white collar, you've got a good chance of being out of work in the near future... your kids shouldn't be thinking about law school, shouldn't be thinking about any kind of tech job... it's weird more families aren't having these discussions about the changes coming in the next 12-18 months... what's your plan?

[Anonymous]

I e told my graduated college daughter and in college daughter to also take an AI course so that they can manipulate AI and be ahead of the curve. Many will be using AI in conjunction with their jobs

[Anonymous]

There’s no AI course in school. Best thing to tell your kids is to not rely on AI and develop critical thinking skills. Jobs with no critical thinking were bound to be cut. Take classes not just to get a high GPA but where you will actually learn something.

[Anonymous]

Younger one has an investment account. I don't think he has to work at all. Older one will start investing now and should be financially free at 30.

[Anonymous]

College education isn't what it used to be.

At one time it was difficult, and made to intentionally fail most who tried to get a BA or higher, similar to sports tryouts, military, etc.

Then along came the participation trophy culture and everyone got a trophy, then everyone was given a degree. Now they are not worth much due to that. So people keep trying to "catch that high" and going for PhD degrees now or multiple degrees. Due to all the soft easy student loans, everyone could do it, and colleges rapidly raised tuitions to ridiculous levels.

It's become a huge scam, just like the insurance scams and the housing market scams. It will all correct itself soon. A.I. might be the catalyst for the college scam at least, making most every job done at a desk obsolete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College education isn't what it used to be.

At one time it was difficult, and made to intentionally fail most who tried to get a BA or higher, similar to sports tryouts, military, etc.

Then along came the participation trophy culture and everyone got a trophy, then everyone was given a degree. Now they are not worth much due to that. So people keep trying to "catch that high" and going for PhD degrees now or multiple degrees. Due to all the soft easy student loans, everyone could do it, and colleges rapidly raised tuitions to ridiculous levels.

It's become a huge scam, just like the insurance scams and the housing market scams. It will all correct itself soon. A.I. might be the catalyst for the college scam at least, making most every job done at a desk obsolete.

I think it's going to be a shock for people like lawyers who, with a few exceptions, are going to obsolete by July 2027. The luckiest will be able to work as AI guides.

I should probably post this in the real estate forums—all those smug Bethesda lawyers in their fancy houses are about to find out what it's like to get foreclosed on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Younger one has an investment account. I don't think he has to work at all. Older one will start investing now and should be financially free at 30.

This is probably the right idea, but I think if they've got less than $2-3m at this point... it might be a bumpy ride.

"financially free" is a nice way to say "no earning ability"... For the very wealthy, they won't have to work anymore, and there will be increased productivity in the things they invest in, but there will also be a pretty serious blow to the economy because no one has any money to buy things... There's going to be so much turmoil. It's tough to imagine what we're about to put our kids through.

[Anonymous]

I have been telling my son for years that automation will get rid of many jobs, and for the past couple of years, we've been discussing AI. I don't know why AI will be good enough to never have human oversight/verification, but it certainly isn't good enough yet. I use it often and see mistakes, often.

Without purposeful policy planning by Congress and the President, we are in for a sh**show. And they are incapable of anything remotely competent. So I think we will see a huge chunk of the middle class disappear. The types of jobs that will remain will be things like medical professions. Of all sorts, from the licensed practical nurse to the brain surgeon. It will be a field that continues to grow. Things like EMS will still grow, while firefighting may not. And finally, anything that serves the upper class with a personal touch will grow/thrive. Like high-end sales.

There should be discussion about a universal basic income, but there never will be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been telling my son for years that automation will get rid of many jobs, and for the past couple of years, we've been discussing AI. I don't know why AI will be good enough to never have human oversight/verification, but it certainly isn't good enough yet. I use it often and see mistakes, often.

Without purposeful policy planning by Congress and the President, we are in for a sh**show. And they are incapable of anything remotely competent. So I think we will see a huge chunk of the middle class disappear. The types of jobs that will remain will be things like medical professions. Of all sorts, from the licensed practical nurse to the brain surgeon. It will be a field that continues to grow. Things like EMS will still grow, while firefighting may not. And finally, anything that serves the upper class with a personal touch will grow/thrive. Like high-end sales.

There should be discussion about a universal basic income, but there never will be.

Spot on, but I do think it's happening faster.

The AI we interact with, for free, like ChatGPT is not the stuff they're deploying at Microsoft to lay off people.

Coding is no longer a job... man, think of all those people who encouraged their kids to do "stem camps" and stuff like that... lawyers will be next... it's scary.

[Anonymous]

Lifeguards, camp counselors will be safe jobs... your kid just probably should get used to doing them into their 30s.

[Anonymous]

Performing Arts. Live theater, dance, music have outlasted every technology revolution in human history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Performing Arts. Live theater, dance, music have outlasted every technology revolution in human history.

Oh, music is screwed. Live theater and dance are probably pretty good tho. But how many people are going to be attending dance shows when they don't have jobs themselves, or, they're so sucked into whatever AI slop is being fed into the socials they no longer care about live events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Performing Arts. Live theater, dance, music have outlasted every technology revolution in human history.

Oh, music is screwed. Live theater and dance are probably pretty good tho. But how many people are going to be attending dance shows when they don't have jobs themselves, or, they're so sucked into whatever AI slop is being fed into the socials they no longer care about live events.

Imagine parents suddenly turning on a dime and after years of prepping their kids for law school now all of a sudden are desperate to get them into Tisch for interpretive dance, argubaly the most AI-proof of jobs.

[Anonymous]

Ford is going to lay off most of it's white collar workers, and keep it's blue collar workers https://www.theautopian.com/ford-ceo-says-blue-collar-workers-safe-as-ai-will-replace-literally-half-of-all-white-collar-workers/

all those bethesda moms going to start sending their kids to mechanics camp!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College education isn't what it used to be.

At one time it was difficult, and made to intentionally fail most who tried to get a BA or higher, similar to sports tryouts, military, etc.

Then along came the participation trophy culture and everyone got a trophy, then everyone was given a degree. Now they are not worth much due to that. So people keep trying to "catch that high" and going for PhD degrees now or multiple degrees. Due to all the soft easy student loans, everyone could do it, and colleges rapidly raised tuitions to ridiculous levels.

It's become a huge scam, just like the insurance scams and the housing market scams. It will all correct itself soon. A.I. might be the catalyst for the college scam at least, making most every job done at a desk obsolete.

I think it's going to be a shock for people like lawyers who, with a few exceptions, are going to obsolete by July 2027. The luckiest will be able to work as AI guides.

I should probably post this in the real estate forums—all those smug Bethesda lawyers in their fancy houses are about to find out what it's like to get foreclosed on.

I'm a lawyer at a nonprofit. I would love if AI was accessible enough and good enough that my clients could advocate for themselves successfully, but I see no signs of that, and certainly not by July 2027.