The impact of AI on jobs
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Not worried about myself or older generations in general, because money in the stock market is the best hedge I can think of against job-destroying automation in private industry. But still, people will need money to spend, to generate all those profits. More, and more, and more, wealth redistribution is inevitable. Especially when future generations of AI-only companies never go public. I think the main driver of the need to go public, is cost of employees.
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I am starting to worry about my son who will graduate from college in 6 years.
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@jon-nyc said in The impact of AI on jobs:
I am starting to worry about my son who will graduate from college in 6 years.
I tell youngsters to consider plumbing school as backup plan. I am thinking it will be much harder for AI to replace plumbers.
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@jon-nyc said in The impact of AI on jobs:
Anthropic CEO: AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10-20% within the next five years... Governments and companies need to stop sugar-coating what they know is coming
I'm sure that guy has better intuitions than I do. My hope is that with better AI will come more opportunities for humans to operate that AI, bringing something human to the table that AIs still can't replicate. Maybe I should discount that hope. It was only ever a faint hope. I've never suffered from any illusions about the magical nature of the human mind.
@Horace said in The impact of AI on jobs:
My hope is that with better AI will come more opportunities for humans to operate that AI, bringing something human to the table that AIs still can't replicate. Maybe I should discount that hope. ...
Unless that "something human" can increase profit, yeah ... discount that hope.
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@jon-nyc said in The impact of AI on jobs:
I am starting to worry about my son who will graduate from college in 6 years.
I tell youngsters to consider plumbing school as backup plan. I am thinking it will be much harder for AI to replace plumbers.
@Axtremus said in The impact of AI on jobs:
@jon-nyc said in The impact of AI on jobs:
I am starting to worry about my son who will graduate from college in 6 years.
I tell youngsters to consider plumbing school as backup plan. I am thinking it will be much harder for AI to replace plumbers.
Are you telling your own kids that?
My son could survive off his inheritances I suppose. Especially given what AGI will do to the stock market.
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Sorry to break it to you Mik:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ever-wish-there-was-a-machine-for-kicking-people-in-the-ass-well/
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If all the butts belong to robots, what better kicker than a machine?
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I wrote a description of something I was doing yesterday, to some coworkers. I pasted a paragraph of it into chatgpt, to see what sense it could make of it.
It understood it perfectly, gave perfectly reasonable advice. This is not advanced stuff, but the level of this conversation, based on my experience, will lose most people allegedly "skilled in the art", but now anybody can get accurate and clear headed explanations of technical stuff, in presumably most realms of human knowledge.
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Most Vulnerable
Interpreters and Translators
Historians
Passenger Attendants
Sales Representatives of Services
Writers and Authors
Customer Service Representatives
CNC Tool Programmers
Telephone Operators
Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
Broadcast Announcers and Radio DJsLeast Vulnerable
Phlebotomists
Nursing Assistants
Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
Helpers—Painters, Plasterers, etc.
Embalmers
Plant and System Operators, All Other
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
Ship Engineers
Tire Repairers and Changers -
Plumbing schoolEscalator and elevator tech training FTW!https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/09/high-paying-jobs-no-college-degree/87128956007/
"Blue collar is in. 10 high-paying jobs that don't require a degree."
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That’s as startling of news as saying it gets darker earlier in November… Stunning! We had no idea! It’s only been brought up 2345 times on this forum.
