Is anyone as worried about AI as me?

[ByJustScroller]

I keep looking on Google that AI is going to cause mass unemployment. I love my job but just feel I will be replaced soon.

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/ai-hasnt-spurred-widespread-layoffs-yet-why-not

You love your job? Do you think it’s completely replaceable by AI?

It’s been amazing help for me at work recently. It can do all the boring admin side of my job whilst I can concentrate on the other stuff.

Right there with you OP. I strongly believe that the use of AI should be limited to certain sectors and even then, heavily regulated. I am resisting it as much as possible in it's current form.

I’m a teacher, and same.

What if your whole job is ‘boring admin’ though

I keep hearing people saying it won't be a problem for them it just does the boring bit, they themselves are still needed etc and I'm sure that's true, but if a job that uses to take four hours now takes two, they only need half as many of you!

I am employed casually and paid for 10 hours for a specific task that I do. Previously it would sometimes actually take a bit more or less but evened out over time. With AI I now only take about 4 hours. For now, no one's realised how efficient I've become, but it's only a matter of time,I'm sure.

It doesn't worry me for me, I'll just retire if it comes to it, but I wouldn't want to be graduating now.

If thing keep worsening for young people, I think that could have a huge detrimental impact on society as a whole.

Yes I am worried.

My workplace has already stopped hiring for some roles due to introduction of AI. I work in finance and we are finding that a lot of work can be automated and the people who leave aren't being replaced. The whole team is worried and reckon they could end up with just 2 employees out of 7 originally.
We are also worried about the job becoming monotonous, the AI is taking on more and more work and those left will just end up doing two of three tasks on repeat.

Terrifying especially worried for the youth

New CEO at my work, like really new, has pulled one full time role from my very small team but apparently it’s fine, he says, because AI will cover everything that role did.

Complete bollocks, and slightly unnerving to be at at the forefront of AI coming for jobs.

I've worked in IT for 40 odd years. I suspect that AI is a complete game changer. It is already replacing large numbers of jobs and I think this will escalate very quickly over the next few years. Massive social change is almost inevitable and this is never easy.
This is without considering the very real risks from a massive increase in cyber attacks by 'bad actors' using AI. I was at an industry cyber security conference last week and one of the pieces of advice was to remove all your household appliances (fridges etc.) from the internet...
Added to the possibility of a 'super-intelligent' AI going rogue I think we are completely stuffed.
I have honestly never felt so depressed about the future at any point in my life.

NHS lost 40% of their admin staff through voluntary redundancy in many trusts last year and are going through another round of it currently with staff having to re- apply for their jobs. Of course there are more staff than jobs. All due to Palantir (founded by Oswald Mosely’s grandson apparently, although that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s like his grandfather - we’d have to hope not!)

I've long felt we're way too reliant on things that are easily sabotaged, but it seems to me we're setting ourselves up for it to happen now.

I’m not too worried for me as my job is entirely physical and I don’t use a computer at all for work. My DH’s job could fairly easily be replaced by AI I imagine, but he is a grafter and has practical skills so I know he would probably find something he could do to generate an income. We are fortunate to have some investments too and we are no spring chickens so feel under less pressure than we would if we were younger.

But I worry for my late teen/young adult DCs. At the moment, one is doing a degree in one of the Allied Health Professions, and the other one is working towards getting into an agricultural industry and the part he is interested in is very physical and outdoorsy, so I do think and hope they have chosen wisely, but the future feels very uncertain. I want nothing to do with AI and avoid it all costs- there are lots of reasons to worry about it I think.

I work in administration and yes I'm worried

I've just listened to a discussion on this. They said that 50% of men's jobs and 80% of women's jobs are under threat. And moving on from that they expect robots to be developed soon, and they will be able to do the physical jobs.

But don't worry, the experts are also saying that AI exterminating humanity is "the default". I honestly don't think we're likely to be around for very much longer.

It’s already caused mass unemployment in dh field. He has been out of work for 18 months and been unable to find a job doing what he was doing before. He now works in a pub.

@itsgettingatadchill Can you tell us what his field was?

I sometimes think that's the best case, and just hope it happens quickly.

Honestly believe it will be the end of us all.

The tension of not knowing (for sure) whether it's going to happen, and if it does when and how it will happen is grim, and will only get worse as things develop. I think we're going to see a lot of suicides.

Not at all.

I have a ‘let it burn’ attitude.

If western economies implode, I’ll just move somewhere low cost like SE Asia and live off my savings until they run out.

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@Crushed23 Is moving to southeast Asia that easy? There will be mass unemployment there too, with all the problems that brings.

Yes, I know there will be unemployment there too, that’s why I said I would live off my savings. I mean I could do the same here, but I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world and would burn through savings much, much faster. I can probably make my current savings last 20 years in countries like Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines. And as I wouldn’t be working, I wouldn’t need to worry about visas, I’d just backpack around like in my 20s. :)