Why are some people here downplaying AI's potential impact on job market?

[Anonymous]

Is this the AI that is allegedly coming for my job? AI makes me worry about lots of things, but not losing my job. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion/ai-grok-x-llm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.QdTi.4DMnpSrd-6H7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think people can accurately predict how these things will work out. History shows us that.

+1 I'm sure AI will impact the job market but I have no way of reading a crystal ball to see how that will play out. Just keep learning, build a strong professional reputation, and build and maintain your professional networks. Then you can deal with what comes and be in a better position to pivot as needed. I've been through a lot of transitions. In my first job I didn't even have an email account.

[Anonymous]

AI seems to be very much like the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. People getting over excited, predicting either a new utopian world or a new dystopian world. Take your pick.

And like the dot com bubble, this too will crash in a year or three and sanity will be restored and real progress will be made with AI in AI v2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this the AI that is allegedly coming for my job? AI makes me worry about lots of things, but not losing my job. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion/ai-grok-x-llm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.QdTi.4DMnpSrd-6H7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

No, that's the stupidest of all the AIs made by Phony Stark.

The one you get for free isn't the good one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this the AI that is allegedly coming for my job? AI makes me worry about lots of things, but not losing my job. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion/ai-grok-x-llm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.QdTi.4DMnpSrd-6H7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

No, that's the stupidest of all the AIs made by Phony Stark.

The one you get for free isn't the good one.

Let me guess. The "good one" is not a Nazi bot but it spends its time convincing users that they need a rocketship to Mars for the good of humanity. 🚀

[Anonymous]

I think the impact is enormous, but I'm senior enough that it won't displace me anytime soon. I use it as a tool, and I'll ride out the end of my career and let AI run its course. I am totally concerned for my kids.

[Anonymous]

Microsoft and Indeed just laid off 1000s of people this week blaming AI...and people are still saying don't worry about AI. Um, ok.

[Anonymous]

The industrial revolution ushered in massive occupational upheaval but we're all here today employed in jobs that were impossible to imagine 200 years ago. No one knows what the future will bring; people will adapt as it comes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The industrial revolution ushered in massive occupational upheaval but we're all here today employed in jobs that were impossible to imagine 200 years ago. No one knows what the future will bring; people will adapt as it comes.

This..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say at least 1/3 of my company is stupid people who just create numbers and reports that are analyzed by others. They dont have any ability or desire to look at their own reports.

Think Accounting Clerks, Auditors, Operations, Compliance, Marketing Data.

With AI those reports just appear. My prior job at a fully remote start up I was Head of a Department for two years with zero staff. Data was all automated, we had queries, dashboards, reports autopopulated and I acted on the data. Prior to that at same size company I had a staff for four creating those reports And we had a ton of chat bots and people in god forsaking countries making peanuts coding and writing queries and automating things.

I would say they can do the work of 10,000 times my current company as all automated

Imagine Telsa have robots building cars, customer orders car on line then car drives itself to your house after you bought it vs a Chevy production line of the 1950s

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The industrial revolution ushered in massive occupational upheaval but we're all here today employed in jobs that were impossible to imagine 200 years ago. No one knows what the future will bring; people will adapt as it comes.

But when you have AI that is smarter than most human workers, that's a game changer. The industrial revolution changed the jobs people did, but the people were still in charge of the machines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter whether AI will replace workers or not. Capital owners are not the red cross. If one day AI is able to replace workers you damn right they will adopt it. They do not care about you and your family. They care about their own bottom line. It's as simple as that.

They will care when people start kidnapping their kids to ransom for food money.

They will use a few of the kidnappers torture them in unimaginable ways and kill them in gruesome ways.

It's been tried before in Columbia. Yeah it was short lived. Pablo Escobar and his thugs didn't play that game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this the AI that is allegedly coming for my job? AI makes me worry about lots of things, but not losing my job. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion/ai-grok-x-llm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.QdTi.4DMnpSrd-6H7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

No, that's the stupidest of all the AIs made by Phony Stark.

The one you get for free isn't the good one.

The point is that all LLMs are designed to figure out what's plausible, not what's right. They also aren't designed to have judgment -- you need people for that. And the more that AI generated material trains AI, the worse it will be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Microsoft and Indeed just laid off 1000s of people this week blaming AI...and people are still saying don't worry about AI. Um, ok.

It’s a smoke screen for offshoring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Microsoft and Indeed just laid off 1000s of people this week blaming AI...and people are still saying don't worry about AI. Um, ok.

It’s a smoke screen for offshoring.

AI is cheaper than offshoring.