To think we need the government to have a serious strategy about jobs and AI?

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Following KS declaring that thousands of civil servants will be replaced by AI, whilst also declaring that thousands of people on disability benefits need to go to work, why is nobody in government facing the obvious fact that millions of jobs are going to vanish over the next 2-3 years globally and there must be a strategy of some kind?
My DH is a geek and uses AI for work and I admit if he didn't bang on about it endlessly I would have no idea what's coming and I think most of the population won't either. But the plan to replace civil servants with AI is a clear admission from the government that it knows it's coming. Saving millions on salaries sounds lovely but if it is a herald of 20% unemployment those savings aren't going to stretch very far.
I am scared, to be honest. I have a teenager who is going to be becoming an adult probably at the beginning of the AI replacing humans avalanche.

I agree with you that AI is going to change a lot of things, but I think that it will still be used by people in jobs that we don't even know about yet. Some jobs will go - yes, but there are also future opportunities. Technological advances have always shaken people up - AI will assist, not completely replace. There is a deep fear that is being ingrained in our consciousness but I think the fear is being blown out of proportion. The next few years will of course bring changes but many of these could be positive for our children's' futures.

It represents potential for change in industries and the workforce, but ultimately I think we’ll just adapt and develop our economy and society as we’ve always done. At the turn of the twentieth century, a third of the population was employed in agriculture; another third in manufacturing. Almost ten percent of the population was still in private service as housekeepers, cooks, nursemaids, butlers etc. And think back even fifty or sixty years to when offices had whole rooms full of typists, mailroom staff, post delivery juniors, every Big Man had a private secretary. When all those jobs disappeared, replaced by both technology and changing social attitudes, we didn’t end up with millions of unemployed people with nothing to do - because we’d moved on and there were other jobs for them to do.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-top-50-jobs-ai-create-replace-over-next-10-years-thomas-ross-swkrc/

This is quite an interesting article that demonstrates yes, some jobs will go eventually, but lists many other potential jobs that could be created due to AI.

Yes, this. Petrol engines and computers wiped out swathes of jobs but now we have nail bars and coffee shops.

Also, although AI can make many jobs quicker and easier, it can't replace a thinking human brain. It's not actual intelligence, it's just a big model.