Angelus said:
Bro you need to honestly come to terms with this. Obviously, it's not nice to see people lose jobs to AI, but this is about to become the norm over the next god knows how many years. Yes, right now, a lot of the AI that's getting used serves to primarily to make a human's job easier...but they still make it easier/faster to a degree that means you can have a job that previously required say 2, 3, 4, 5 people or so, and bring it down to 1. Obviously the extend of the redundancy being created various by exact role and task, but it's still happening, and will continue to happen more and more. Mind you, I'm not even saying this is necessarily good. In some cases it will be, in others, it will likely be a negative, or at the very least bring as many negatives as upsides for some time. But this is the world we find ourselves in now. It's up to governments across the world to really look into doing a better job creating regulation around AI, right now, because if they don't, this train isn't stopping anytime soon. The AI tools are going to keep improving. Right now, you have kids the world over preparing for a life/jobs that probably won't exist a decade from now. That's a serious problem, and honestly not enough people are conscious of the fact that's even happening. You got people looking at individual small areas when they pop up in the news, like oh it's too bad about these people, it sucks about these jobs, this field that I'm interested in, those people I care about...isn't this company stupid...don't they suck...they don't know what they're doing..... Yes...sadly, they do know what they're doing. Building towards the future that the vast majority of people, including the governments responsible for regulating how we traverse that future, are utterly ignorant of being pretty much around the corner. Everything is gonna change in the next decade. How many paralegals are there in the world? How many anesthesiologist? You think these jobs have a future for people? Not likely. And we can go on and on down the list. Kicking and screaming at the companies isn't gonna change anything. Write your elected officials. Make THEM see that the average person is desperately in need of some safeguards in the advent of AI. |
Yeah, it's unfortunate, but this is going to become more and more prevalent. AI is going to be taking so many jobs in the coming years if something doesn't change, we're staring down the barrel of an unemployment crisis that will make The Great Recession of 2008 (peaked at 10.6% in 2010) look like a day at the beach by comparison, it could very well one day top the unemployment crisis during the Great Depression, which peaked at 25%. AI has already taken jobs in industries like fast food (AI order taking programs) and customer support call centers, and that is just the tip of the iceberg, the number of jobs that will be taken by AI will far exceed the number of new jobs created by AI and robotics development and maintenance.
The governments of the world are going to have to step up and decide on regulations and policies that will limit the number of jobs that AI can take and encourage the creation of jobs in new fields, and funding for training people in those new jobs in new fields. Left/right, it doesn't matter where you fall on the political spectrum, this is a major issue for all of us, from primarily right wing rural farmers to primarily left wing office workers in big cities, quite alot of us could one day lose our job to AI and robotics, and politicians on both sides are going to have to work toward fixing it before it snowballs completely out of control.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 15 July 2025
