Is AI an existential threat to human jobs? | BBC News

42 thoughts on “Is AI an existential threat to human jobs? | BBC News”

• if the economy is based on mass consumption and those masses will no longer be able to consume because they have no employment therefore money….well…. the fact that you ask the question strongly indicates humanity is an existential threat to itself

• In the short term AI will replace some jobs but will create other jobs we will need more people to make the AI train the models and run the AI tell it what to do. AI will not be autonomous for a very long time.. So yes some jobs will disappear but other jobs will be created.

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• 25% jobs that are getting affected are high skill jobs. When skilled people don't have enough jobs then who will buy goods and services.

  Our future will messed up big time, only large technology companies will survive leaving us food and clothes

  Here i thought movies like movies like Robocop and Terminator are just science fiction.

• Today's (19/7/24) situation with IT systems being down should wake up governments to the obvious fact that if you rely too much on technology you put essential systems at risk when they stop working.

• Ai taking more jobs than it creates, what are we doing? Is this how democracy will be destroyed or how democracy want to reduce human population?

• I don't think so works here in Ethiopia artificial intelligence… B/c…… Research about Ethiopia

• I don't think soooooo

• Doesn't take much intelligence to do what most people do.
  Adaptibility within certain norms is the challenge.

• Meta AI wrote that maybe Artificial Intelligence is indirectly involved to crash the humans' Microsoft 365 for Its 90's model Algorithms. AI added that the old engine with new body.

• Thinking of robots makes me angry tbh

• it's like asking; is any tv and similar gadget free from bbc

• The person in pink I dont agree with at all . Training human to human will always be important. Ai will also take revenue away from a lot of people & our capitalist system depends on people spending money ? Why is no one talking about this ???

• Takeaways from this report: Increased working hours for less pay due to role simplification from AI advancement. A much smaller percentage of roles will have "more time for meaningful work" (and that won't diminish the long hours spent working in those roles), if anything, the number of labor-intensive, minion jobs is increasing rapidly in the form of manual remote AI training gig-economy tasks that pay cents on the hour (already a present-day reality). Essentially, most virtual work will be in support of training and troubleshooting automated processes (transitioning away from the creativity of designing and implementing automation in the context of corporate work). The smug, "tow-the-company-line" demeanor of the SF Prez should tell you all you need to know about the corporation's position in all of this. I could go on about this only being a win for the owner class (as is always the case for all of human existence), but everyone knows this already. The solution? Again, the same thing it's always been: be innovative (just not too far ahead of the curve—no one will comprehend that) at whatever you choose to do, in the face of common mediocrity.

• “White people don’t fear anything except something doing better than them.” – X

• Would banning wheels create more jobs?

• Can we deinvent technology and live in a bubble ?

• Is the car a threat to the horse carriage industry?

• Could BBC interview people who tell the truth? The fact is, AI is far more dangerous than climate change! … wanna know more, search for “Human Optimization using CRISPER and AI”. We have opened Pandora Box 😢

• By implementing AI , people will have a lot of spare time to follow other pursuits.

• If we depend too much on AI eventually we will become dumb.

• Absolutely great angle on this report and perfect voice from the reporters and those pointing out the issues involved in our union busting companies along with ceos making decisions on the fate of workers Livelihoods, some of those companies that can afford to wage steal from workers to create "technological advances" for management to get power hungry while running skeleton staffing.

• How can we make sure ai is benefiting all, not just the ceo's? "We will use it to hire you, soooooo….."

• 300m indeed, more like every job that has ever existed

• 5:40, cracks whip.

• 3:00, physical jobs are also very much not secure, robotics is advancing at a crazy rate…

• Yes, it IS very demoralizing to spend your last weeks on your laid-off job training your replacements as I and my fellow software developers were made to do in the great wave of "offshoring" that CEOs embraced in the USA 20 years ago.

• It will take your job, mr newsreader

• Ai might write a "shakesperian" sonnet, by having the same number of lines and metre, but the poetry is pure Macgonagall.

• there is no question about it

• The problem is.. Another How do you make these Corporations pay taxes 3 times more because they use robots that can work 24 hours out of 24,,, in such a way that People who lost their Jobs can live decently. I mean have decent incomes so that delinquents don't reach..WOW!!

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• As a individual that worked at a company where I was expected to train my line manager I can truly and honestly reflect on how this makes people feel and that result is not rewarding psychologicaly from that perspective.

  When we change the perspective from replacements to collaborators then the reward is quite forfilling.

  If as a society or broadly as a civilisation we look at the more abstract perspective of humans to create data for training and that this data is becoming limited then the basic building block of a sustainable future is creating a reward architecture for creating good quality data from all aspects of human civilisation and the nature of planet earth as a whole then the quality of the training data improves, generative AI will not need to be trained on synthetic data and then a relationship built of collaboration will create a lasting alignment between each of us.

• How is this even a question? I look at the number of cashiers being hired in supermarkets and I think it is pretty clear to anybody who can count.

• Well A.I can have my job.
  Robots can have personal profiles on public records & bank accounts like humans do (if the gov made it into law that companies have to abide by). Robots should get paid and the best thing is, they don't care about being taxed. Tax robots 50% of their pay (which will go into universal income for humans). The other 50% will go towards the robot's maintenance and repair/replacement costs when they brake. You could even tax them higher than 50%. You could tax them more than a human whilst paying them less than a human, so it benefits the company & government spending more than a human salary would (although there needs to be a minimum wage for robots to maintain the amount of money the government gets in tax, therefore won't lower government-spending potential for healthcare, universal income, etc).

  As for the fun jobs, like film, TV, sports, music, art, etc. Humans will still find a way to capitalise around their hobbies & interests. They might get stiff competition from Robotic companies that fill that industry, but it won't stop the human from creating if they know universal income will support them if they succeed or not. Hobbies & interests are hobbies & interests whether you succeed to capitalise around it or not.

• Journalism is going to go AI fast which is really bad although current joyrnalism is so click baited thar we havr lost investagative journalism and now just have shocking ipinion based journalism.

• Laughing at the middle class with there pointless jobs who this effects 😂

• What should a average person do now to prepare for this?

• The business representatives speak like politicians, with words that sound good but say nothing.
  Of course the companies and shareholders and owners will make more money and the rest will get done over. Just look at Altman’s comments, he wants the commercial benefits but wants to offload the negative impact to governments and taxpayers.
  These companies don’t care about anything other than the bottom line and money

• what AI?

• Jobs are for robots, humans are for loving. #JobsAreForRobots

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