How worried should we be about AI?

[Hertfordshire10012]

I can’t sleep knowing one day I will be replaced by AI. The government keeps talking about how good AI is but not how AI will take people jobs and make people redundant. How worried should we been?

I think it’s still pie in the sky at this point. I see a lot of bog-standard software being rebranded as ‘AI’ to get more interest and investment, reeks of the dot com bubble.

I’m quite worried about it as I’m in an admin based position and it could definitely be taken over by AI. I’m considering going in to health care to try and minimise the risk.

I thinks it’s complete tosh. Yes AI is coming but does that mean it will take over jobs so humans don’t need to work, doubt it very much. AI started coming in when I was a teenager, I’m now hitting 40s and AI can’t even cover all admin tasks yet, can’t see it happening personally, not for another 10-20 years at least.

In terms of how worried you should be about your job being replaced by AI, I think that very much depends on what your job is.

Well… what do you work as? Honestly if you’re worried, educate yourself. Knowledge is definitely power here. Learn how to use it and you will be the most valuable person in your org. It’s pretty basic to just read the papers and then panic that everyone going to be replaced by cyborgs.

I thought you might be worried about the ethics or even future state where AI makes dangerous decisions autonomously….

I think it's complete tosh

So do I. Dangerous tosh, but tosh all the same.

They’re starting to introduce it in elements of where I work, although not my job, and it’s absolutely shit. More time is spent checking it for errors and nonsense than would be spent on writing the thing properly in the first place.

I’m not worried about AI - I asked yesterday for the dimensions (length to see if it would definitely fit in a goose pot) of a goose to roast if it were 10lbs and got told it would be over three feet long.

I work in admin and AI is starting to remove parts of my job that were previously done manually and I can only see it getting worse so in that respect, it is quite worrying.

The only bright side is that I am now late 50's so approaching the end of my working life, if I was much younger I would be much more worried.

Marketing here. It won't happen overnight, but I'm already seeing hours getting cut in some clients, and stuff like companies that used to have 5 x marketing staff reduce it to 2 and expect those 2 to use AI. The AI tools won't remain free forever, though, so that might limit its spread somewhat.