AI will create some new jobs, but overall lead to a net decrease in jobs. In other words, it will replace more workers than it requires. I would argue that this is a good thing. Automation should be making people's lives easier, so that we have better jobs, higher wages, more free time, shorter work weeks and a higher standard of living. AI and automation should free us from being the wage slaves that we currently are and from working many menial, repetitive jobs. The problem is that the capitalists and wealthy elites who run everything will use AI and automation to decrease the number of jobs, lower wages, increase unemployment, lower the standard of living for middle & working class people, all while making themselves even richer and more powerful. They have been doing this with every technological advancement that has increased productivity for the last 70 years or so. Big businesses reap all of the benefits of technology and automation, while the rest of us get poorer and poorer.
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Reply to Will AI Lead To Lost Of Jobs by therealsam44
AI will create some new jobs, but overall lead to a net decrease in jobs. In other words, it will replace more workers than it requires. I would argue that this is a good thing. Automation should be making people's lives easier, so that we have better jobs, higher wages, more free time, shorter work weeks and a higher standard of living. AI and automation should free us from being the wage slaves that we currently are and from working many menial, repetitive jobs. The problem is that the capitalists and wealthy elites who run everything will use AI and automation to decrease the number of jobs, lower wages, increase unemployment, lower the standard of living for middle & working class people, all while making themselves even richer and more powerful. They have been doing this with every technological advancement that has increased productivity for the last 70 years or so. Big businesses reap all of the benefits of technology and automation, while the rest of us get poorer and poorer.