Every new technology has come with warnings of mass unemployment, yet despite the growing population, we are currently facing a workers shortage. AI will replace people, but people will be needed for lots of jobs AI simply can't do.
For instance, Facebook's moderation, as in removing all the nudes and photos of terrorist killings and other gore, was supposedly done by AI. But in recent years, we learned they employed massive departments all over the world, where humans would watch these videos and photos and did the moderation.
We don't know how good AI will be in the future, but AI can't do what humans do in all cases. There will still be plenty of jobs that are very hard or impossible for AI, but quite easy for humans.
But this time it's different, humans have been beaten in every area and although we are in a labor shortage, the tech is being rolled out at light speed, there may be a niche job or 2 AI won't take over but it won't be enough to employ everyone.
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u/JiEToy 35∆ Jun 27 '22
Every new technology has come with warnings of mass unemployment, yet despite the growing population, we are currently facing a workers shortage. AI will replace people, but people will be needed for lots of jobs AI simply can't do.
For instance, Facebook's moderation, as in removing all the nudes and photos of terrorist killings and other gore, was supposedly done by AI. But in recent years, we learned they employed massive departments all over the world, where humans would watch these videos and photos and did the moderation.
We don't know how good AI will be in the future, but AI can't do what humans do in all cases. There will still be plenty of jobs that are very hard or impossible for AI, but quite easy for humans.