The Age of AI has begun

Re:The Age of AI has begun by anon7725 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:15PM (#35252691)

Let’s play a game of “conservative impacts of AI on the labor force”

- the Bureau of Labor Statistics thinks we should have 15% more software engineers in 10 years. What if we had 10% fewer?

-800k project managers - how about 650k in 10 years?

-nearly 4 million executive assistants and admins - let’s take 1M off that total

-millions combined (still) in clerical roles across industries, including financial, medical, warehouse, etc. let’s take 1-2M off that total

- journalists, writers, editors, graphic designers, interior designers, illustrators, …

… and the list goes on. These are intentionally conservative numbers (no 50% cuts or jobs going away entirely) but they still add up to millions.

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Re:The Age of AI has begun by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:21PM (#35252747)

In what sense is any of that “conservative”?

(I mean, my intuition would be, for example, that it means more software engineers, and disproportionately even more PMs -- though probably often with a different title -- as it expabds the market for software solutions, and reduces the engineering effort to product decision ratio. But that’s not conservative, any more than your catastrophizing is.)

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Re:The Age of AI has begun by anon7725 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:40PM (#35252981)

Okay let’s take the software industry out of it. Do you think millions of non-software jobs will be affected?

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