Submitted by googoobah t3_11cku2n in Futurology
khamelean t1_ja3oakp wrote
By definition, the singularity is a point that you can’t see beyond. Trying to guess what the job market will look like past the singularity is an exercise in futility.
PO0tyTng t1_ja4ny7i wrote
CEOs will never automate their own jobs. Gotta have someone to keep all the profits. Get an MBA and you’ll be fine… 😂🤣😭💀
atleastimnotabanker t1_ja56rci wrote
OP asked for what to do if the singularity happens this decade - in that case it's not up to the CEOs if their jobs will be automated, but rather up to the AGI. And what the AGI will do with this world is not possible to predict.
So probably best to just plan for the case where the singularity still takes longer (or doesn't come at all for some reason)
checker280 t1_ja4zpl4 wrote
CEO’s might never automate their jobs but unless you are at the top I doubt you will be safe.
Blue collar might be safe because there is very little standard from one scenario to the next. Even in something like a car, how the car is used/abused and how the car is maintained will add enough variance that will hinder AI from being efficient. In two homes with identical footprint/layout - how the rooms are used and wired/plumbed will make it impossible for AI to troubleshoot or fix unless it can see/predict everything.
White collar jobs are about to be impacted greatly and they will never see it coming. Disease diagnosis is becoming child’s play for AI who can identify the subtlest differences in comparison to tens of thousands of bodies before them.
I suspect the law and accounting will be no different as long as the AI can be fed enough data for them to compare.
Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 t1_ja701r9 wrote
CEO’s answer to the shareholders. Shareholders can oust the ceo
OpusChao t1_ja6ybz2 wrote
Can't be anymore profits because robots don't buy stuff.
billtowson1982 t1_ja73q1x wrote
Most big company CEOs are not the biggest shareholders in their companies. If AI really does get to the point where it can do almost every single possible job more efficiently than any and all humans, then CEO jobs are no safer than anyone else's. Zero, one, a few, or in theory (but unlikely in reality) all people will make production decisions for the AI and no one else will do anything of economic value whatsoever. That doesn't mean some humans won't "work" - humans will still be able to make nice wooden tables, for example, but in such a world the AI could make better tables faster, cheaper, and with less waste of resources. For a person to sell a table that they made, they buyer would have to want it because it was made by a human - despite it being inferior in every other way.
jdragun2 t1_ja7dc4i wrote
I swear I saw an article on how Boards would be wise to replace CEOs with AI as all they do is guess the future and pretty much every current AI is better at that task than any human, their jobs are actually very likely to be replaced. Then boards and shareholders get THAT much more money, and they are the real decision makers. Personally I think CEOs are the biggest threat to their profits when compared to AI. Their jobs will be on the block as much as anything else will be.
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