The Government needs to have a strategy to deal with all the job losses AI is going to cause?

[Appalonia]

And they don't? There's so many areas that this is going to affect, and I have NO idea what the Government 's strategy is. It's been estimated that 40% of jobs could be eliminated in just 5 years time, which will leave millions out of work. I really don't want to be alarmist, but I do think this is going to be a massive problem in the not too distant future. It's great for companies, but not great for workers.

I don't know what the answer is, but does anyone know if the Government are on top of this, or do they just have their head in the sand...?

Maybe one day, we'll all lead a life of leisure and be paid a universal wage.
Not sure how long that may take or if the human race will survive that long.

Some jobs will be lost, it will not be 40% in 5 years. It’s not that great yet, it’s expensive and resource heavy.

It's been estimated that 40% of jobs could be eliminated in just 5 years time

Can you provide a reference for this particular part, please?

There will be sectors where a third of jobs might be gone in 5 years time though. And many sectors where 10% or 20% will go. I can see how step by step, tech companies put more pressure on people’s productivity and use of AI resulting in less people doing more work, and this trend of ongoing redundancies chips away at the jobs pool. Meanwhile there are many jobs that are planned to be mostly automated with “agentic AI” within the next 5 years. Once the tech is there, software will be cheaper than human labour.
Of course there are roles where this isn’t possible, but also many roles that can be helped with AI (less people needed) and some that can be mostly done by AI (very few people needed).

It isn’t all bad, e.g. helping doctors diagnose cancer faster and more accurately means less worrying about the results and faster way to treatment, and that’s a big positive. It is a transformation that we will go through as a society in increments.

I get your point about the potential for jobs to go. However, I'm old enough to have watched tomorrow's world in the bbc, where computers were going to replace us, then robots, now it's ai. We were going to have lots a leisure time, which is why shopping in mall's was sold as a day out rather than a chore.

whilst computers replaced some jobs, a s did robots, I think there will be a kick back sometime soon from consumers or more likely savvy businesses who will sell themselves on customer service and actually speaking to a human.

There are many different estimates, tbh it's very difficult to give an exact estimate, but this is one.
https://news.sky.com/story/ai-risks-up-to-eight-million-uk-job-losses-with-low-skilled-worst-hit-report-warns-13102214

Of course they do. But they won't. As usual. They'll just sleep walk into a situation where thousands of people are losing their jobs to AI then start bleating about the high unemployment rate. And at the same time telling thousands of sick and disabled people that there are umpteen jobs going begging so they can get their lazy arses off disability benefits.

I remember the same type of conversations in the late 70s/ early 80s about computerisation. We were told at my school, as teens, to expect 3 day working weeks and plenty of leisure time..hollow laugh What did happen was a shift to different types of jobs.
I'm not sure what the shift would be now, but a universal income would have to be paid for, so unless AI is hugely profitable it won't take over everything.

@Appalonia
It isn’t that 40% of jobs will be eliminated by AI, it is that they will be affected by AI - the majority of which would be aided by AI

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67977967.amp

60% in advanced economies, 26% in low income countries

There are a government AI strategy and action plan

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/614db4d1e90e077a2cbdf3c4/National_AI_Strategy_-_PDF_version.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan-government-response/ai-opportunities-action-plan-government-response

These include identifying the skills need - which then means targeting education for the future workforce, up skipping the current workforce - and for those who will have jobs at risk there will be a need for re-skilling

Watch the industrys over time - as industries / technologies change there are early changers who look ahead, those that follow and those that fall behind
Note the fossil fuel lobby - it’s a very strong lobby, but the giants among them are both lobbying to protect their legacy fossil fuels and at the same time researching and moving into alternative sources

I think my job will go. It's very worrying. I can't afford to not work and not convinced someone my age and with my background will be snapped up elsewhere.

And they think the sick and disabled can magically walk into jobs...

There is always a fear of new technology. Cars were going to make millions of horse workers unemployed. The cassette tape would destroy the music industry. Technology evolves, so do jobs.

There is a plan, world war three.

Funny really, "“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce” and the person who said this predicted that technology would undermine capitalism,....in 1857. Marx.

Technology undermines labour, and if there is no labour, there is no value, and if there is no value, there is no surplus value.