Potential 100 million jobs will be lost to AI according to senate report
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Anonymous
Humans have to oversee these robots, maintain and troubleshoot the robots and program the robots. Calm down. AI will change, not replace jobs |
Anonymous
Why are some of you so empty headed. Even if what you say is true, it's not a 1 to 1 replacement. There will be many fewer jobs available because of this tech, such that all of us will feel significantly more economic pressure, despite so many people already barely treading water. |
Anonymous
| Clankers….man. |
Anonymous
You're seeing what they are doing to prepare. Consolidating power, othering immigrants and brown people, and taking a hard turn toward fascism, just like us. |
Anonymous
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It's a Bernie sponsored report. If you scroll through the jobs that will supposedly be lost, it includes several "blue collar" jobs (eg. truck drivers), waiters, teaching assistants. The solution is more government benefits (universal health care, 32 hour work week etc.).
Many of the current job losses and retrenchments are largely because companies overhired in the pandemic. The last 10 years with zero lower bound interest rate regime, which meant that any investment however risky was preferable to stashing it under the mattress. That's gone now, resulting in layoffs. None of the current LLMs actually make any money. OpenAI is not promising any profits and the whole thing looks like a bubble (OpenAI invests in AMD, NVIDIA invests in OpenAI which buys their GPUs etc). Yes, there will be some disruption at the margins, but society and the workplace will adjust. This report is all hysteria. |
Anonymous
Yeah I’m a nurse. I’m worried bc I don’t live in a bubble. Also, life is going to be exponentially harder for my kids. |
Anonymous
You sound like Trump. |
Anonymous
| I scanned that report. The staffers used ChatGPT to calculate number of jobs replaced by AI across a number of job fields. Maybe AI should just replace the staffers. |
Anonymous
They've got robotics now. Some surgeries are already done with robotics. I think I saw something about one surgery conducted remotely, if I remember correctly. Coming to a kiosk near you: Robotics mixing and serving up your specialty coffee drinks. |
Anonymous
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Was this sponsored by one of the AI companies?
Regardless, people aren’t having as many kids anymore so fewer jobs shouldn’t be an issue. |
Anonymous
| We won’t need jobs when AI destroys the environment. You should really look into the amount of water it uses up. |
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I read an Atlantic article about is reverting to something like feudalism. The inspiration for the writer was actually from a historian about the decline of Rome (due to corruption)--"what happens to a polity when central control and common purpose are eroded by expediency, self-interest, and profit. This had been the subject of his book on corruption—a word, as MacMullen used it, with connotations broader than bribery and graft"
In Europe, as imperial power receded, a new system of organization took hold, one in which power, governance, law, security, rights, and wealth were decentralized and held in private hands. Those who possessed this private power were linked to one another, from highest to lowest, in tiers of vassalage. The people above also had obligations to the people below—administering justice, providing protection. Think of the system, perhaps, as a nesting doll of oligarchs presiding over a great mass of people who subsisted as villeins and serfs. The idea of governments as public ventures with a public purpose and some degree of public voice—what the Mayflower Compact called a “civill Body Politick”—took a long time to claw its way back into existence. Most people in the developed world have been living in a civill Body Politick, or something that aspires to be one, for several centuries. I won’t overstate how successful this experiment has been, but it’s the reason we have police forces rather than vigilantes, and safety nets rather than alms thrown haphazardly from horseback by men in tights. Worth reading, I think I will read it again. I don't know of a way to do an Atlantic gift article or I would, but the link is https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/government-privatization-feudalism/682888/ |
Anonymous
AI is not robotics. |
Anonymous
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Obviously people will choose to starve instead of working to grow food.
Obviously people will freeze to death instead of working to build shelter. |
Anonymous
They can easily be combined. Basically giving a brain a body. And with that, AI will be coming for the trades as well. Anyone who thinks they are insulated is not very bright. This will devastate job markets across industries. And we are doing nothing to stop it or prepare for it. |