AI proposed to replace American workers

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Elon Musk is planning to replace tens of thousands of sacked American workers with artificial intelligence tools, according to US officials.

Musk will replace sacked American workers with machines.

Do you support this change to the American workforce?

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Source?

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

I support it if it stops the unnecessary spending of taxpayer dollars to the federal government.

[salamander]

no. i understand ai at this point is being "inevitable" in its role in many industries, but average workers losing their jobs is never a good thing regardless of why it is happening.

i am not totally anti ai, i do think that i has some uses in certain roles in tech fields, but i would rathering people not lose their jobs to it.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Cheering for your own extinction. Humans really deserve everything they get.

[Dom]

Yep, that will happen once he has cut all the government agencies that drive the interests of the American workers and consumers.

People voted for that.

Like the department that costs $800 million annually but returns over $20 billion to consumers every year who were misled by financial institutions, corporations and companies. MAGA views that as a waste.

"Government efficiency" is when Americans get scammed.

[Oneeyed]

Elon Musk said he wants to replace government workers with AI. You just made it up that he targets all american workers which is untrue.

He also stated he thinks AI will replace all jobs in the end and I have to disagree.

Of course every business will replace many workers with AI all over the world. Current estimates are 300 Mio jobs are gone until 2030 worldwide.

The good news: Currently you cannot replace physical labor with AI because its far too complex. Even jobs like cleaning cannot be done by a robot. Yeah you can build robots which do a very simple cleaning task like vacuum cleaning. But cleaning is so much more complex like cleaning a bath tub, cleaning a toilet, cleaning tables and so on. You practically would need a human robot with an integrated AI for doing this job.

Try to build a skyscraper with AI and robots only. Also robots already fail at a simple task like laying tiles in a bathroom.

Robots are only used if they are cheaper and produce the same quality of work than employees and in many occasion they are not. Many complex robots are far too expensive or we are decades away from construction one.

The bad news: AI will pretty quickly replace 90 % of the employees in offices. So every job requires writing and reading is in question. Also creative jobs can easily assisted by AI so jobs like designer will heavily suffer. Same goes for software developer. But even this has a good side because this also means 90 % of lawyers will be out of a job. And they make up the majority of politicans worldwide. There is a good chance this will influence future AI laws.

[The 3 Whites]

i support it when it also brings universal basic income

[Ele]

If an AI can do your job, then so be it. You simply don't deserve it anymore.

[salamander]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από RORSCHACH:

If an AI can do your job, then so be it. You simply don't deserve it anymore.

and if it was your job set to be replaced?

[Immortalis]

Machines have always replaced workers.
That didn’t make workers dispensable or useless, it merely forced them to adapt to the new reality and work a different (typically less physically intensive) work.

Are you against machines tilling the fields and would like us to go back to having 90% of the workforce back into farms?
Are you against cars because that deprived coachmen and stable hands of their jobs?
Are you against ships and trains moving away from steam powered engines because people are no longer needed to shove coal inside the furnace?


Enough with the doomsaying.
The world ins changing, it has always changed and won’t stop changing; the only difference is that nowadays the change is faster than it was in the past.
We’ll be fine, just as we’ve always been fine.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Fortunately people can still do creative jobs machines can never replace, like painter or writer.

[Ele]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από salamander:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από RORSCHACH:

If an AI can do your job, then so be it. You simply don't deserve it anymore.

and if it was your job set to be replaced?

I think I made myself clear. I could name 100 jobs that have been replaced by machines over the last 100 years. What's the difference?

[salamander]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από salamander:

and if it was your job set to be replaced?

I think I made myself clear. I could name 100 jobs that have been replaced by machines over the last 100 years. What's the difference?

hey, as long as you apply the same standard to yourself then there is no issue here. at least you stand by your convictions.

[Kamiyama]

Wealth disparity is already worse than ever before in human history. People are becoming angry, and the next wave of automation will turn tens of millions of homeless into hundreds of millions of homeless.

The only way this doesn't end in bloody revolution is if they roll out UBI. They have to do it sooner rather than later, because AI development isn't slowing down.

[tom blu]

Doesn't work in a capitalist society, unless you implement a universal basic income. You need consumers to keep the machine running, it's a vital part of the chain, and nobody can consume if they're unemployed.