For many, the worry will be that it will take away thousands of high paying jobs and replace them with significantly lower salaried, or even minimum wage jobs. People have bought houses, had children, and generally made life plans based on the premise their vocation could support that lifestyle. The Government need to provide support and retraining to try and prevent these events because they are good for no-one except bad actors and vulture capitalists.
Comment on AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
How many will it create though?
CritFail@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I agree. I think some are really going to benefit from AI, but perhaps many more will be negatively impacted. The government seems to be waiting for the problem to get ugly before waking up and addressing.
allywilson@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Exactly. I keep hearing this “they’re taking our jobs” argument, and it’s been going on for a long time. The people saying this are not lookng at the stats of how many people are now employed compared to 10, 100 years ago. From the industrial revolution onwards, it’s been generally an upward trend.
cai@kbin.social 7 months ago
People are worried about the jobs they actually have, not jobs that may or may not appear decades from now.
Hope is not a strategy.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Yes, on a personal basis the job losses are devastating. On a societal bssis, they are not.