What happens to kids if AI takes entry level jobs? What you advising them?

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On back of the worming class boys thread. If AI takes over white collar jobs, what happens to all the m.c. communities. Education and aspiration became a feature post industrialisation once blue collar jobs disappeared and you needed education to get ahead in office jobs. What happens now? My kid is only 6 but already thinking about this.

If AI takes jobs, does education become pointless. How are parents guiding their kids? Looking at parts that lost industries, will parts of South east become like that once office jobs go?

If even Oxbridge and STEM is no longer enough to guarantee a comfortable life, then what for the young people?

So robots do the fun, intellectually stimulating stuff and a handful of humans are paid peanuts to babysit and clean up their slop. Sounds great

The creative industry is already using AI extensively. They probably have far fewer reservations about using it than other industries, because at least if it hallucinates the results won't be as catastrophic as they will be in law or medicine. There's already an AI-generated singer, Eddie Dalton, who's entered the iTunes charts even though he doesn't exist. There's an upcoming film, As Deep as the Grave, which will feature an AI-generated version of Val Kilmer, even though he's dead. In a few years' time, we could be getting "new" music from Elvis and Amy Winehouse, and new films "starring" Marilyn Monroe.

@ZoeCM Agree. I think in the same way as we have moved from scheduled programs to streaming at your convenience, AI will turn films into highly customisable experiences, i.e. viewers can choose their leading actors or even have a 'glammed up' version of themselves or any kind of fantasy avatar starring in any program they fancy that they can prompt AI to generate for them.

Not at all - AI does the commodity work, humans do the critical thinking and creative direction.

Am I the only person who thinks that recreating dead people via AI avatars is just bloody disgusting? Let the dead rest in peace ffs.

I use AI sometimes to try and help me do things (finance). It’s often abysmal, can’t deal with data, gets calculations wrong, incorrectly interprets trends etc. It can do some good things but at the moment it will not be replacing people where thought is needed.

It will need to evolve significantly, which will obviously happen, but it will vary by its impact on different types of job.

Tell that to the musicians, artists, writers etc who used to enjoy the jobs they've lost

No, this is hyperbole. It’s the same. Fast cheap soundtracks or columns can be created by AI. Still require people to validate, assure tone, imagery etc is what was intended.

AI can’t perform on stage. can’t play a guitar. Can only originate using versions of what it already knows.

commodity tasks get automated - yes. But not the creators, artists, writers.

why? Because people want the real thing. AI simplifies some of the tasks. Where it is used can benefit the creator and producer in the pace they can create new things.

And copywrite still exists. LLMs are not a legal entity and cannot own copywrite. Where it uses someone’s prior content to create something new, the copywrite owner will be paid.

I'll take your opinion on the impact of AI on the creative industries seriously when you can spell copyright

Several of my books have been scraped for AI so far. They are in the Anthropic system. No-one asked me, informed me or paid me.

What does this mean @FuckRealityBringMeABook and how do you know?

AI firm Anthropic agrees to pay authors $1.5bn to settle piracy lawsuit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo

An article covering lawsuits, from the US Authors' Guild.
https://authorsguild.org/news/ai-class-action-lawsuits/

Coverage of a campaign from the Guardian
"Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/thousands-authors-publish-empty-book-protest-ai-work-copyright

Of course books are ‘used’ by LLMS, they are used to train the models. Though they don’t claim to store them like a library but may use to quote with citation. And yes this ‘should be’ with authorisation and consent from the author and if you have evidence that your work is being recreated in breach of your publishers contracts then you should find a lawyer.

its an emerging area granted, but the intent is for creators to be paid. The structure as to when and how is still being defined.

What is Anthropic allegedly doing with your work that is not within the existing boundaries of your contracts?

Mumsnet is the only app on earth that doesn’t have spellcheck or autocorrect.

It doesn’t effect my AI knowledge in the slightest though 👍

You cannot be taken seriously if you misspell a key term in the debate three times.

HRTFT (page one and current last page) but going back to the OP, I suggested my dc thinks about doing a degree for its own sake, rather than having a goal in mind (as at the moment she doesn’t know what she wants to do); then think about starting a business around a lifelong interest she has.

More broadly, I see AI as a threat to most creative and analytical professions, sadly, as pp have mentioned. The areas where I can’t see it being able to replace humans are things like caring jobs, work with vulnerable people and with animals, and things which have to be done in person like hairdressing. But I fear that for many communities, there will be mass unemployment as was seen in mining towns following the closure of the coal mines- that was devastating and I think this will be similar and much more widespread.

I personally think that government will be forced into offering a universal basic income, because most of the available jobs will be low-paid due to the competition for them. But without some sort of wholesale rethinking of how we find meaning and purpose in life, I really worry about the long term impact of AI.

Generic degrees will become pointless, because our speed and ability to learn using AI will write off the need to study business for 3 yrs for example. As a tool, information is at our fingertips, research time is reduced by 70%.

We still need lawyers - who will use AI. Authors - who will use AI. Doctors - who will use AI. Teachers - who will use AI.

Carers will still use AI. Apps in their phones. As will Builders, bus drivers, restaurant workers.

there will still be a need for junior level staff.

New degrees are already becoming available in using AI but they are mostly technical or data based. My niece is going to study Architecture next year and we found a course that includes use of AI in design.

if you are not learning, in whatever your line of work is, how AI will create opportunity then you end up in the group that it will replace. Low level commodity task based work will be replaced. That’s fact.

For the younger ones it was known for the last 3 yrs that 80% of their future jobs didn’t exist yet because of the AI capability that was coming, the speed at which AI is creating jobs owns quite dramatic - yes it’s still in the technical field - those who will enable AI usage everywhere else. But we will always need people to manage the AI agents and tools in every industry they are used.

Its not doom and gloom by any means, but it is the Industrial Revolution of our time. For as long as the press scaremonger about it the longer people will resist getting involved out of fear. I do wish they would change the narrative.

The government are already looking at charging a levy to organisations who make redundancies specifically due to AI in order to fund retraining and skills uplift for those in lower skilled work.

The gaps around sustainable skills transformation are gradually being closed.

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Have you seen Abba Voyage?
People heavily involved of course but AI will certainly be able to perform on stage.

Of course - because it can do something doesn’t mean it replaces an entire industry.

its additional entertainment, it creates more jobs. It doesn’t replaces existing on stage shows. The only thing that does that is lack of demand.

I worry the same and DD is only 6. I work in healthcare and AI is affecting things like medicine, especially radiology, diagnostic processes etc. I read an article just this week saying nursing, midwifery and paramedics courses are oversubscribed and there just isn’t the vacancies for all the recent graduates, when traditionally there was for a large %. So they are studying and being trained for specific roles and will still be unemployed at the end, having to fight off the previous years unemployed graduates. Unless they emigrate which isn’t open to everyone. DD has dual citizenship with another country far away but this is a heartbreaking thought unless it’s her dream to do so as she’s my only child. It’s crazy as every other week we read about a crisis in nursing, midwifery and surely more staff and investment is needed (yes i know there are government cost issues etc)

She may want to do something completely different like trades, teaching or self employments business but all of these similar issues or other problems. My teacher friends area put a freeze on hiring new grads, and she still only has mainly bank work (though longterm contracts, but not permanent with the rights it brings) 6 years later from qualifying.

I get those are only snippets and not the whole picture, I live rurally and children moving for work happens all the time, but I think we will need to be prepared for moving countries/continents instead of to the big city.

Midwifery isn’t a great vocation anymore due to the falling birth rate. The government do need to limit university courses for it though and other medical courses if there are no jobs.

the intent is for creators to be paid

Bullshit. Why didn't they work out the details of how to pay for IP before scraping it without permission in that case and why are they having to be dragged through the courts to cough up?

Meanwhile we are supposed to be aiming for net zero

www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/24/officials-hugely-underestimated-impact-of-ai-datacentres-on-uk-carbon-emissions