AI proofing your job and society

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

I agree w this. It’s just a language prediction model. It’s not accurate enough.

We need to go back to progress in coding. There was so much advancement there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

I thought I read it was already starting to turn profitable? I personally hope you are right but I also don't think AI needs to be able to do everything in order to be hugely disruptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

I thought I read it was already starting to turn profitable? I personally hope you are right but I also don't think AI needs to be able to do everything in order to be hugely disruptive.

o

They are spreading rumors of profits leading up to IPO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

I sure hope so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that working directly with humans is more AI proof than other jobs.

Supporting that work, or directly working as a coach, physical therapist, doctor, carer, educator of young children.

Even if areas like education go through massive change, the youngest children will still need human comfort. That and aging populations.

Education will still need a lot of in person teachers.
Even if knowledge is imparted by robots, we still need humans to teach and model real life situations. And we need to think really hard about whether we want kids growing up so dependent on technology and can’t do simple things like measure, make change, or read a map.
They need to interact with other people and physical objects and learn citizenship, how to interact with others, practical skills like cooking, cleaning, and budgeting. And physical education, music, and art of course.
See Japanese elementary schools as a model.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

I thought I read it was already starting to turn profitable? I personally hope you are right but I also don't think AI needs to be able to do everything in order to be hugely disruptive.

o

They are spreading rumors of profits leading up to IPO.

+1 to both comments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

I am a senior statistician and AI has been phenomenal for me. We spent about a year testing AI in many of our processes and it works. Many people are in denial and I will not speak about fields I have no idea about. Hower as far as my role is concerned at our company, AI works. We are down to just 3 people in the Analytics team. I am running models that use to take me weeks with constantly begging some our engineers for help.

But some people are saying their job is safe from AI and my answer is good for them. They know their job more than I (we) do. I am just honest with myself. I am 100% replaceable by AI. Knowing this helps.

Here is one tip. If you are a domain expert and know how to use AI to augment your work, you will be valuable.

People underestimate how much Billionaires hate workers. You honestly think someone promising them a tool that can get rid of workers won't make them empty their bank accounts to make it happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that working directly with humans is more AI proof than other jobs.

Supporting that work, or directly working as a coach, physical therapist, doctor, carer, educator of young children.

Even if areas like education go through massive change, the youngest children will still need human comfort. That and aging populations.

Education will still need a lot of in person teachers.
Even if knowledge is imparted by robots, we still need humans to teach and model real life situations. And we need to think really hard about whether we want kids growing up so dependent on technology and can’t do simple things like measure, make change, or read a map.
They need to interact with other people and physical objects and learn citizenship, how to interact with others, practical skills like cooking, cleaning, and budgeting. And physical education, music, and art of course.
See Japanese elementary schools as a model.

I don’t really agree. My kids are already learning a lot outside of the teacher through AI, virtual flashcards, videos, and online practice tools. In many cases, the in-person teacher is not what moves the needle. The biggest help is usually 1-on-1 tutoring.

A lot of classroom teaching today is one person giving the same lesson to 25 or 30 kids, then collecting papers and grading. Honestly, some of that work may be better done by AI anyway, especially grading, feedback, practice questions, and customized study plans.

Kids still need social interaction, PE, music, art, life skills, and real-world experiences. But that doesn’t mean the traditional teacher model has to stay the same.

Teachers should be using AI to create better lesson plans and personalized materials, while focusing more on coaching, mentoring, and helping students where they are actually stuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

From your lips to God's ears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

I sure hope so.

But of course the American taxpayer will bail them out while they tell us Social Security and Medicare need to be cut. And the masses will do nothing.

[Anonymous]

The best way you can AI proof yourself is to not use it as anything other than a tool for zero value add tasks. Learn things the hard way, and do things authentically. This is already becoming rare and you will be at a premium. Just as with any other industry, mass produced garbage might make up most of what's on a shelf, but the high quality items will sell at a massive premium. This includes human capital.

[Anonymous]

It is absolutely already having an enormous impact and will continue to; however, I think it is almost impossible right now to predict the long-run impacts on a job market for young people 10 years into the future. Technology always is disruptive (the printing press, the internet, etc).

I’d probably advise a young person to do the following:
1) think first abt pursuing careers with some kind of in-person component that would be difficult to automate
2) cultivate deep subject matter expertise in some technical area
3) cultivate evergreen skills that make you a flexible and valuable employee: good communication, problem-solving, proactiveness, reliability, creativity, emotional regulation, ability to quickly learn new things

[Anonymous]

Adding one more to the list above -

4) investing heavily in maintaining strong in-person professional networks (every person I know who got a job after being RIFed did so by reaching out vulnerably to human colleagues and asking for help in the job search)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI will be transformational, but not in the way people expect. Instead, it will cause an economic crash when AI never generates the promised revenues because it can't fully replace humans for most jobs. Data centers will have been built but will be unneeded, and massive capital will have been wasted. Big tech, hedge funds, and banks will suffer huge losses from pouring too much money into AI.

I am a senior statistician and AI has been phenomenal for me. We spent about a year testing AI in many of our processes and it works. Many people are in denial and I will not speak about fields I have no idea about. Hower as far as my role is concerned at our company, AI works. We are down to just 3 people in the Analytics team. I am running models that use to take me weeks with constantly begging some our engineers for help.

But some people are saying their job is safe from AI and my answer is good for them. They know their job more than I (we) do. I am just honest with myself. I am 100% replaceable by AI. Knowing this helps.

Here is one tip. If you are a domain expert and know how to use AI to augment your work, you will be valuable.

People underestimate how much Billionaires hate workers. You honestly think someone promising them a tool that can get rid of workers won't make them empty their bank accounts to make it happen?

I think a lot of jobs are coding-adjacent and so they find themselves running to someone with coding skills to push their project forward. In my job that has been the only instance of AI truly cutting time out of a process when I used AI to develop a small piece of software instead of running to someone else.

A lot of jobs are not like this. A lot of jobs do not have that kind of regimented language use like code.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that working directly with humans is more AI proof than other jobs.

Supporting that work, or directly working as a coach, physical therapist, doctor, carer, educator of young children.

Even if areas like education go through massive change, the youngest children will still need human comfort. That and aging populations.

Education will still need a lot of in person teachers.
Even if knowledge is imparted by robots, we still need humans to teach and model real life situations. And we need to think really hard about whether we want kids growing up so dependent on technology and can’t do simple things like measure, make change, or read a map.
They need to interact with other people and physical objects and learn citizenship, how to interact with others, practical skills like cooking, cleaning, and budgeting. And physical education, music, and art of course.
See Japanese elementary schools as a model.

A lot of classroom teaching today is one person giving the same lesson to 25 or 30 kids, then collecting papers and grading. Honestly, some of that work may be better done by AI anyway, especially grading, feedback, practice questions, and customized study plans.

If by "today" you mean "in 1951," OK. Maybe talk to teachers (or really anyone) before you tell them how they could do a better job