Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.
IMO, the warning should be with companies, not individuals.
So, if a company needs fewer employees, there will be more companies, and more competition in the market. You lay off thousands of very smart people, and they’ll go to your competitors, or create new ones using the skills you gave them.
The problem right now is that companies are expecting AI to replace people right now. If you do, you’re in for a world of hurt as hallucinations and training issues will almost certainly give you some headaches - whether it’s a HR agent committing an offence that makes the company legally or financially liable, recruitment AI that rejects candidates disproportionately, or software tools that decide to invent features or introduce nested, poor-performing bullshit. This doesn’t even go into the liability issues of pumping your customer and employee data into third-party tools. AI in it’s current state is a useful tool, nothing more.
The competitors are also using AI. They don’t want to deal with “employees” any more than the big guys do. They’ll actually get more done in less time with AI. So at best, you stand out among the thousands that get laid off and some other employer lets you be the lucky one to gently steer the AI when it goes off course.
This is the most realistic outcome imo. Even before AI there’s already a pattern where employees jump through companies before they gather enough experience to make their own.
I think it’s rather that current forms of capitalism are ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ with AI being the most effective tool to accomplish that goal.
Yeah no shit. Any media hack who tells you otherwise is misinformed, on some hidden payroll, or willfully ignorant
New technologies are eventually used to disenfranchise and disempower people.
New technologies are eventually used to disenfranchise and disempower people.
Lol, what? Are you familiar with the Luddites?
It’s pretty funny seeing the discrepancy between this thread beeing overall positive of ai replacing jobs, and the other one where google is letting people off and commenters are pissed about it.
And so were the Conveyor-Belt and the Steam-Engine.
Progress in production makes our lives better and raise our standard of living. It also frees up labour for other new Sectors.
I think we all saw this coming. But the worst part is this: they want to replace white collar jobs like Developers, Managers, Architects, Engineers etc - all the educated people.
Whereas it should be used to replace manual labour jobs in conjunction with robotics to spare humans doing heavy and dangerous labour, freeing them to go study and get white collar jobs. Thereby improving society and raising people on the bottom, to the middle and beyond.
Instead they are cutting down the top and the middle, making these people jobless and poor thereby increasing the poverty!
Just so that a few billionaires can get even richer! It’s disgusting!
WE NEED TO REPLACE THE PEOPLE WHO BUY OUR @&$! WITH ROBOTS -a cigar chomping executive somewhere
Good?
Why don’t we want machines doing the work we don’t want to do?
Oh right, white collar workers want to hold everyone else back so they don’t have to adapt.
Where have I seen this before…
