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Re:Jon Stewart on AI: It's replacing us in the workforce now by paxys on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:12PM (#39962986)
Who says it will be 10 new jobs? Why not a thousand? Or a million?

Did the world end when weavers lost their jobs because of automated looms or elevator operators lost their job because of buttons? Just like all the times before, we will figure it out. The only thing that will make the outcome worse is forced government action based on a few loud voices and populist demands.

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Re:Jon Stewart on AI: It's replacing us in the workforce now by TFYS on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:20PM (#39963054)
The closer to human abilities AI gets, the less space there will be for new jobs to appear. Just because new jobs appeared before doesn't mean they always will. It does make sense to slow down this progress if we don't have answers to what happens if jobs start disappearing faster than we can replace them.
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Re:Jon Stewart on AI: It's replacing us in the workforce now by paxys on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:47PM (#39963270)
Who is going to "slow down this progress"? Some mythical world government? The Illuminati? You can't legislate human thought and human ingenuity. Progress is happening, whether you like it or not. You either embrace it or get left behind.
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Re:Jon Stewart on AI: It's replacing us in the workforce now by TFYS on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:06PM (#39963420)
We can't stop it, but if the leading countries regulate it progress will be slower.
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Re:Jon Stewart on AI: It's replacing us in the workforce now by paxys on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:35PM (#39963660)
If one major economy regulates and slows down AI the rest of them will ramp up their investment and gain a competitive edge. The jobs will be gone regardless, just this time to an AI company in China or India rather than the USA. That's how the world works.
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Re:Jon Stewart on AI: It's replacing us in the workforce now by fragmede on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:10PM (#39963459)
When the robots can fix themselves, then no new jobs need be created to fix the robots. Then that time it'll be different. We're at the cusp of that. I can ask openinterpreter to fix python on my computer for me. it's only a matter of time before robotics catches up.
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