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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Lucky_Strike-85 on 2024-01-10 03:46:56+00:00.
I hear this a lot... "Reskilling. Automation will take our jobs, but we'll just make new ones."
"Most jobs in 2030 havent been invented yet."
"By 2050, most people will be employed doing things with robots, AI/drone controllers, etc. Don't worry, you'll be employed."
Variations on that same theme can be found in a dozen or more futurist articles...
What about the other thing that we hear ad nauseum... "More leisure time, most jobs will be gone and AI will do everything. People will live lives of leisure and will need to find fulfillment."
Obviously you dont need a singularity to have millions or billions of jobs automated away...
Which is it?
If it's the former, how many older people without even a modicum of IT experience gonna train for complex AI controller jobs? Are we just gonna bring back manufacturing and just be factory workers again, building robots all day? What do jobs look like?
if we see the latter, an AI world where most don't work, what's that like?
And what's the timeline for all this? 2030? 2050? 2100?