At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’t Be a Job Killer

Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by cjlars on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @05:15PM (#13421954)

Then it would appear we mostly agree. There will be winners and losers.

>"we don't need to worry at all, everything will work out"

Strawman of course. A nuanced understanding of the historical context of other technological booms is the point of my original post and it's specifically the 'omg AI gonna take our jerbs' kneejerk reaction that I wanted to preempt. I would add that statisticians seem to be less worried about AI threats than your average HNer [1]. And although I don't have a handy source, I know that economists are also likely to brush aside predictions of major impacts.

[1] https://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report/executive-summary

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Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by burkaman on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @05:21PM (#13422008)

Ok, I guess I misread your comment. I still think it reads like "the last labor transformation went pretty smoothly, and this one will be less significant, so chill". On a human level it did not go smoothly, and most individuals are not very resilient to changes in the economy.

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