Jobs vs. Machines: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

The media tell us Artificial Intelligence will replace millions of jobs. They’re right, but that doesn’t mean we should fear it.
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The Teamsters are protesting self-driving cars, asking government for more regulation, hoping to stop AI vehicles from taking delivery, taxi-driver and truck-driver jobs.
That’s a fight that they can’t win.
Loom weavers, typists, telephone operators, bank tellers, and many other jobs were destroyed because of new technology.
It won’t stop happening, and AI will make it happen faster.
But as people lose jobs, remember that so far, this creative destruction has led to people finding new, better jobs. Unemployment has been dropping, and wages keep going up!
If history is any indication, AI will be a good thing.
** Technical advice from Mark Palmer **

[@Khalifrio]

The Unions are less worried about jobs. They are more worried about losing due paying union members.

[@sassafras8677]

try only, not less

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

The gang/thug mentality of Marxist controlled unions makes them very unattractive to businesses.

[@srdjan455]

And how can union members pay if they don't have jobs?

[@wheel-man5319]

So true!!

[@baldisaerodynamic9692]

true, but if less workers it means less revenue for them. soooooo.....they are worried about jobs.

[@chrimony]

Unemployment numbers don't take into account the permanently unemployed -- after a certain period of time without a job, you're considered no longer looking for employment.

[@workingcountry1776]

Foreclosures, defaults and poverty are up drastically over 2019 all over my state

[@teekay_1]

@@workingcountry1776 That has more to do with the monetary policy of the US Government than any sort of AI revolution.

[@feloniouseve]

Umemployment numbers dont take into account the people who are unemployed but didnt file. Its a BS statistic.

[@_taxman_]

After a certain amount of time without a job, no one will hire you.

[@GaryR55]

Then there is the fact that, the longer you go without the job you were experienced at, the less valuable your years of experience becomes. Eventually, you become unemployable in the job you once made a living from for decades. This happened to me, and after unsucessfully trying to transition to other work, plus being fired (along with my boss) from the only work I could find, I was left with no recourse to unemployment benefits. Thus, I was without an income for a year and a half, living with my cousin while continuing to look for employment. Finally, when I turned 62, I retired on my Social Security (the promised return of the taxes collected from my wages during my working life). The next step was to find subdidized housing where I could live on my Social Security. Starbucks baristas are paid more than I am.

[@caribbeanbound8357]

Government won't ban human driving. Insurance companies will eventually make it too expensive to drive your own car. Once all cars have the ability to be self driving; people, news and government will promote the idea that the self driving cars save lives compared to the 40k deaths per year we currently have. At that point, insurers may even refuse to cover someone who self drives or the option may eventually be removed all together. But that'll be decades away.

[@cp1cupcake]

Yeah I agree. It is the same way government has been getting around most privacy laws. It is easier and faster to pay Facebook and Google for all the dirt than get a warrant.

[@Monaleenian]

Insurance companies will only raise premiums if courts award larger damages in injury cases. The insurance companies have no real say. They have to accept the value that judges place on life and conduct their business accordingly. It will be judges who price people out of driving.

[@caribbeanbound8357]

good point. At the same time, insurance should no longer be needed if ALL cars drive themselves@@Monaleenian . or at least a very minimal amount, so theres the positive side.

[@johnstaton5524]

Not decades. Could happen in the next 10. Already want to try and limit your vehicle speed with more tech in them.

[@mr.mithmoth]

That and younger people today tend to drive far less than those of the last few generations. Driving meant freedom to us. Sadly, freedom is not an idea that many young people value right now. But there was a time when nobody had a car and I can't say those were the worst times. I guess we'll see.

[@momo_genX]

The government is intruding so much today and nobody does anything about it.

[@nothosaur]

It's so cute to think that Jon thinks that our current government cares about what the voters want. Some Representatives do. But the vast majority only pretend. They serve donors

[@danielh3719]

… yet.

[@OpinionFactChecker]

Government only exists to serve itself! ​@@nothosaur

[@FourthRoot]

Maby an AI will take care of that problem.

[@methag-mm1he]

Remember election time is a time when something can be done, but die hard party voters will keep voting for the same people and expecting different results. Be they Democrat, or Republican, when they tell you everything is fine, when you know everything sucks, you know they are lying to you.

[@londonrd]

Until our government is reduced and these politicians face consequences for their actions, I can't trust anything they are apart of.

[@DJVARAO]

Good news: judges and politicians can be easily replaced by current Ai tools.

[@dionrau5580]

F that 💩!!!!

[@Bustamaru]

@@DJVARAO yeah, sure. Then those ai judges and politicians will be controlled by whoever created the Ai. Very smart move.

[@GaryR55]

Definitely the right attitude! I haven't trusted them at any time during my life.

[@DJVARAO]

​@@Bustamaru​ Can you control grammar correction in ChatGPT?

[@selohcin]

The problem isn't that robots and AI will put workers out of a job; it's that they'll put ENTRY-LEVEL workers out of a job.

[@Rucnas]

And people will need to adapt and learn new skills. The society will continue to change, and the people will have to change it with it.

[@Tairai_Daos]

I see how foundational stuff is automated, and then it's difficult for people to figure out how to problem solve above that point without the basic experience.

[@phukyerpheefees]

1:15 They've already mandated remote cutoff switches in every new vehicle, what makes you think they care what us plebs want?

[@johndoe8785]

You know how many vehicles exist in this world? Enough to never buy a car that's been government certified to fail.

[@Wesley-eu7rn]

Mandatory refit with auto cutoff will be the forced solution. Scanners on the highway will make sure it's been done.@@johndoe8785

[@phukyerpheefees]

@@johndoe8785 So, entropy doesn't exist and a government willing to mandate remote killswitches wouldn't ban older vehicles. Got it. 🙄

[@elenabob4953]

Are you sure about that? I know that in Europe they mandated to have an onboard camera that will monitor your face and body position, a green certificate that will communicate outside info's regarding your car, a green fencing that will force your car to avoid restricted areas, after each driving cycle the car must communicate certain informations to a server fir authorities and now they think to put a battery passport but I didn't see anything mandatory regulation to put a Killswitch.

[@phukyerpheefees]

@@elenabob4953 Yes, I'm sure. It was hidden in vehicle safety and environmental standards passed in the US as part of Biden's "green" energy/EV boondoggle.

[@frankcolumbo4481]

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers which opposed the use of cost-saving machinery, and often destroyed the machines in clandestine raids. They protested against manufacturers who used machines in "a fraudulent and deceitful manner" to replace the skilled labour of workers and drive down wages by producing inferior goods. Over time, the term has been used to refer to those opposed to industrialisation, automation, computerisation, or new technologies in general.

[@kimberlyrichardson387]

While I admit the inevitability, I am skeptical due to the other inevitability-unforeseen consequences.

[@loraineperkins4851]

The problem is that it is reducing entry level jobs. That is the first thing a company would do to reduce cost!

[@elenabob4953]

The problem is that without those entry level jobs you won't have the pipeline to grow the experts that will need to deal with complicated problems that the AI can't handle.

[@ThatBlueSkull]

So for that reason entry level jobs wont be replaced @@elenabob4953

[@GeneralChangOfDanang]

@@elenabob4953 Companies don't think that far ahead.

[@jr-yn4lk]

@@elenabob4953 In a few decades, you won't need these experts

[@sexistspaghettios]

"Bank tellers were replaced by ATM machines" They were?! 🤨 Someone should probably tell the tellers at my bank lol.

[@DeAthWaGer]

Well by ATMs, not ATM machines. Ever see a bank an hour before closing or non-preak hours? One teller and a line to the ATM. That wasn't the case 30 years ago, there was always 2+ tellers ALL DAY. Plus online banking does almost everything, including depositing antiquated checks.

[@RichardRennes]

"Well by ATMs, not ATM machines." - Do you even know what the "M" in ATM even stands for?@@DeAthWaGer

[@tenhundredkills]

@@DeAthWaGer Gotta agree with you on the online banking. In the 32 years I've been alive, I've only ever written five physical checks. Everything else is done electronically. It's faster, cheaper, more accurate, and more secure. Technology renders going to a physical bank nearly obsolete.

[@ebinrock]

There are tellers at the bank? I would have never known. Let's see, I get direct deposit for my paycheck, I use my credit card for every purchase (but pay in full every month), never needing cash for anything, but on the rare occasion that I do, I can use an ATM. If I get a check for Christmas, I can take a picture of it to deposit it. I almost never have to set foot in a bank or even go in the drive-thru.

[@RichardRennes]

@@DeAthWaGer "Well by ATMs, not ATM machines." - Do you even know what the "M" in ATM stands for?

[@freedomrings1420]

Glad that I'm 64 , because this isn't the world that I came into .

[@elenabob4953]

We had a colleague that retired. He worked his whole life for a company. When he started they didn't had any computers all was done by hand. During his life he adapted to technology, learned a foreign language and many other things. I can't imagine how the world will look like when I will retire considering that when I was born the computers with cassette have been a thing, internet didn't existed...

[@tiredofit1968]

Same here

[@GaryR55]

I'm 72 in October of this year. It hasn't been the same world I came into in decades.

[@practicaloccultist231]

Im 22 so I am just getting started wish me some luck 😂🤞🏻

[@earlmcgill5867]

Same here. I'm 55 and even though I feel like I've finally gotten a handle on life, I'm really not looking forward to old age with all of the social and technology changes we are seeing taking place.

[@Paladin1873]

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

[@Zero_Contradictions]

What everybody really wanted was high-speed rail. The car ought to be one of the worst inventions ever created in human history because it caused massive pollution, inefficient urban infrastructure, higher obesity rates, a waste of resources, and the lost of trillions of dollars of economic potential. I talk about this more on my website.

[@ErikBixby]

"ATM Machines", Automated Teller Machine Machines. Damnit Stossel!

[@unsilentmajority1684]

Ha. I cringed when I heard that

[@christopherbrooks6355]

Real wages are down. Wages arent keeping up qith inflation

[@papasquat355]

They haven't kept up for over 40 years. Less to do with Ai (up until now) and more to do with C-suites and the politicians who support them over the voting class.

[@patrickbateman1660]

You are factually wrong. Its just your emotions cloid your thinking

[@christopherbrooks6355]

@papasquat355 it has bur in the last 2 years is soared higher and faster than the last 40. It didn't creep up like the last 40 years it came at us at 200 miles an hour

[@stevenperry5592]

@@papasquat355real wages have increased over the last 40 years. You are saying that life is the same as it was 40 years ago and the quality/ quantity of what you can purchase is the same or worse?

[@macc240038]

Maybe you can get a job as a proof reader.

[@derekisthematrix]

Our transition to corporate farming might not be the best example to highlight.

[@BrianK-zz4fk]

The equipment is a positive but your correct on the other aspects like treatment of the animals, the distruction of the soil, the chemicals used make our food supply quality much worse.

[@johnchappell4492]

95%+ of U.S. farms are family owned and operated.

[@BrianK-zz4fk]

@@johnchappell4492 guess bill gates counts as family operated 😂

[@shaundevrisky349]

@@johnchappell4492 When the "family farms" regularly own 50,000 plus acres of land, have twenty hog confinements holding 48,000 pigs, have 6000 head sow nursery units and feedlots with 5-10,000 head of cattle, and their annual revenue is in the multi-millions (not including the government subsidies that for some reason they STILL think that they are entitled to) they are no longer the quaint little family farms that you envision in your head. They are then corporate industrial agriculture, and they aren't much different than Cargill, JSB, Smithfield, etc. The romantic idealism of the quaint historic small family farm is largely a thing of the past.

[@shaundevrisky349]

When the "family farms" regularly own 50,000 plus acres of land, have twenty hog confinements holding 48,000 pigs, have 6000 head sow nursery units and feedlots with 5-10,000 head of cattle, and their annual revenue is in the multi-millions (not including the government subsidies that for some reason they STILL think that they are entitled to) they are no longer the quaint little family farms that you envision in your head. They are then corporate industrial agriculture, and they aren't much different than Cargill, JSB, Smithfield, etc. The romantic idealism of the quaint historic small family farm is largely a thing of the past.

[@cjtvtube]

Your correct John but I think society has reached a "Saturation Point" in which there are just too many people. Robots and AI taking most the menial jobs will put a lot of people out of work.

[@GaryR55]

The depopulationists will love you!

[@pjacobsen1000]

Too many people? The number of employed just keeps going up and up. 40 years ago, there were 100 million employed in America; now it's 160 million. More people create more jobs.

[@cjpeery]

No we’re actually negative in population currently but at least all the illegal immigration makes up for people not having babies. You can’t kill the poor and then expect them to make your things. Many who believe in overpopulation live in cities.

[@TEverettReynolds]

Since we (in the USA) take a census every decade, in 1790, 90% of the jobs were in agriculture. After the Industrial Revolution, in 1900, only 50% of jobs were in agriculture. Today, thanks to technology, only 3% of jobs are in agriculture. If you told someone in 1790 that 90% of the agriculture jobs would disappear, they would have called you crazy. Yes, AI and Robotics will eliminate some jobs, but it will increase the productivity of others and lead to new jobs, thanks to our free enterprise economic system.

[@methag-mm1he]

Right now we have tens of millions of people walking around with debt for the AI education they got at college and they can't do anything with it.

[@mattolivier1835]

Haha, funny stuff.

[@dk-bw4gk]

I'm old enough to remember when people were panicking at the thought of computers replacing workers. That work remained and computers created thousands of new jobs, everywhere from local PC repair to massive IT departments.

[@classicrockandfurriesrule4743]

A.I. should replace Congress !

[@tonycable4560]

This I agree with - we just have to make sure we can keep it unbiased, but definitely a great idea.

[@Jason.family]

Go back to watch iRobot then Terminator (original) and say that again.

[@gd44481]

The Establishment replaced by a robot controlled by the Establishment....

[@user-ip1jl4bd3t]

LOL

[@coda821]

If AI replaces the media, then congress will be an illusion.

[@allysagilbreath]

Thomas Sowell was right when he said there are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. Technology is evolving way faster than our genes and culture can and that is what we should focus on. How can we find meaning and stay healthy in this new era?

[@agisler87]

Finding meaning and staying healthy is something for individuals to figure out. Not government.

[@davidgraham2673]

Unpopular an answer as this is, God is always waiting for you. God created you with a specific purpose in mind. He will anchor you, if you let Him. As angry as this privacy intrusion makes me, I know that the way events are unfolding, there isn't any way for one to escape electronic monitoring, and the control they are slipping around our necks, like leashes. I've learned to accept what I can't control, primarily because I know God is in charge, and I place my faith in Jesus. When Jesus offers to set you free, that means free from worry as well, as so many aspects of life. He does not promise a life of luxury, and every whim and desire fulfilled: That's Satan who does that. If you have honest questions, I try try my best to answer them for you. (Bear in mind that I don't know everything, but I do have some resources to help find answers.) God bless you. He promises peace that surpasses all understanding, and it seems peace is also what you're looking for.

[@jr-yn4lk]

You wont be healthy. You will be replaced. Humans are at their last decades of existence.

[@19ate4]

When the internet launched in the 90s, I told m,y parents about the possibility of selling their ceramics online and not rive to the mall. My mother said “ no one will ever put their credit card online” Now Malls are gone because of online shopping

[@bluestorm9651]

Malls are failing due not just to online shopping but also Walmart. The stuff in malls has always been overpriced and the selection is poor.

[@davidpawson7393]

​@bluestorm9651 I still remember ordering online for the first time and it felt both too easy while at the same time completely changed how I ran my small business for the better. I didn't need to stop working, drive somewhere to find they were out of stock so on to the next store. Saved me much time, fuel and stress. Now it's who has the easiest return/exchange and so far that is Walmart as a real human called me back within minutes of using the online message icon. Sorry Jeff, not sorry.

[@sidwhiting665]

@@bluestorm9651 agreed. I stopped going to the Mall long before I started using Amazon... probably 10 years before. Malls are highly inefficient use of retail space and most of them lack character. I went to a Mall for the first time in 3 years just a few weeks ago because I needed my eyeglasses repaired and the closets shop was there. Had I been closer to a stand-alone, I would've gone there instead.

[@thecultofcaged]

​@@busimagen 🤓

[@tonycable4560]

@@busimagen Yep, I was playing multi-user online games in the late 80s - I played with gamers from all over the world. Most MUDs were limited to about 100 players, but we still had a lot of fun. The internet was definitely a thing and used by millions of people from around the world before the World Wide Web was created.

[@mellusk9194]

Back when I was in university, well over 20 years ago, I was working in a restaurant, and having a chat with our dishwasher. He asked what my major was, and I told him "Industrial Technology". He asked what that was, and I told him that I program machinery and assembly line robots. He replied that I was "looking to put people out of job". I asked him "how many towels do you use on a an average night when washing dishes". He said that he didn't use any, because "the machine does it for me". I said "yet here you are".

[@LoremIpsum1970]

We'll reach a tipping point for the worst at some point. AI's reach is far and wide, it doesn't need a pension, sick pay, etc. That logic worked for automation in retail, it will work the same (even if only by downsizing employment numbers) in engineering, healthcare, education, hospitality, etc. Few, if any sectors of our economies will be left untouched and that's the problem. Even the dishwasher has been replaced with a machine in large restaurants...

[@zonked1200]

@@LoremIpsum1970 Engineering, healthcare, education, hospitality, etc, are all industries screaming for more employees. Reducing the need for some of those jobs is a good thing. Especially as it will reduce costs, which is especially good for healthcare. May even improve the results in education. We may or may not ever reach a tipping point but I think it's unlikely we will. For us to hit that point, the majority of people would have to be unemployed. There would be no impetuous to have more AI and automation at that point, because it won't be worth it.

[@Nanobits]

Exactly, I been telling people this for a very long time. I been an electrical engineer for almost 25 years and I knew it was only a matter of time, I did not expect it to go as fast at it has, but I also did not accept the idea that it would never happen.

[@LoremIpsum1970]

@@zonked1200 Factor in corporate turnover and shareholder return...and nothing's impossible. I don't know if you've not been paying attention but the money seems to be flowing in one direction and I don't see that stopping anytime soon. Reducing the lack of staff removes another sector that you can't retrain for... Remember in the 20th century we were promised automation would free up our leisure time as if it were a benefit. That never happened as all we did was work more to produce more. That's why some are now promoting UBI, they want this to happen...

[@LoremIpsum1970]

@@Nanobits I work in technical graphics in engineering, I certainly see a reduction in staffing with no loss of capacity being the selling point. So far I've not seen much in the way of automation except for simple framing, but eventually, something good enough will appear, and I hope I've retired by then!

[@canonwright8397]

If Robots take actors' jobs, maybe the awards shows will finally be worth watching.

[@bikeny]

And take less time to hand out the awards too.

[@concernedcitizen6572]

Idk a robot would have to be pretty entertaining to replace Stossel 😂

[@NiklasLarssonSeglarfan]

The changes in the past were usually very slow, very gradual and almost always required massive upfront investments.. AI will ignore all those three things and will put a lot of people out of work very quickly.. And globally. It will be a major issue for many groups.

[@alexandrialucius8351]

My question is why are they moving so fast to update infrastructure for A.I. but not for human drivers?

[@mushypork2132]

they are creating infrastructure for businesses which will be relying on AI and not for AI specifically

[@fredflintstone4715]

If driving by humans is banned, what new taxes will be needed to replace all the speeding ticket revenue?

[@ashleypenn7845]

They'll just jack up the tax rate on owning the vehicle to compensate. And tax the electricity you use to charge it. (No gas tax. Gas vehicles will be outlawed.)

[@Sizukun1]

"put people over robots" Kinda funny these exact same arguments have been around for decades.

[@sexistspaghettios]

Also kinda funny that some of these people had no problem with truckers being replaced but now that it's taxis, uber and lyfts, it's suddenly "THEY TOOK ER JERB!!!"

[@Monaleenian]

Who/what has been replacing truckers?

[@scarlet_phonavis6734]

Reminder the us postal service is nearly fully automated mail sorting wise, 200k jobs disappeared after 99 to the sorting system

[@RimfireAddicted70]

A very important key feature to remember is the Gov't does not need to ban anything in order to control or discourage people from using it. They simply partner with Insurance companies and pass laws requiring certain coverages which will be so overly cost prohibitive that the common person is unable to afford it. This allows them to say we took nothing away you simply choose not use it. A very underhanded way of backdoor control. Taxes, fees, production restrictions and regulation are all ways to control the masses without taking anything away on paper.

[@Jason.family]

The problem isn't the change of the technology, the problem is the speed at which the change is happening. We are changing our job marketplace so much faster than ever in the past. The question now is will those who have the will even be able to learn the new skills for the new jobs fast enough to get the job or will they simply be chasing that skill gap forever?

[@jimlarkin1400]

they won't the (WEF) is working on that for you wake up people they are going to reduce the world population, the second in command calls us all useless human food eaters. do some research damn wake up

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

Won't be many jobs anyway, Everyone even with uni degrees will be fighting over a dishwashing job that some place couldn't afford to set up robots. It's why you see a push for universal basic income as they already know what's coming with machines and A.I.

[@ebinrock]

​@@ShaneMcGrath.And where will the money come from for UBI? We're moving to a world where there won't be any jobs at all and elites will decide who gets what and how much, like a "Mardi Gras" economy.

[@agisler87]

That's a ridiculous conclusion. There is no evidence to suggest that will happen. The only thing driving it is people's fear of something they don't understand. AI is nothing more than a buzzword, it's a glorified statistical calculator with zero intelligence.

[@Cyrus992]

Unemployment rate isn’t truly measuring joblessness. We heading to a resource based economy. Best video to fight the border crisis

[@kaspar_1982]

i think the dancing robots at the end should do that dance after they murder us. 😄

[@jakebrakebill]

when they finally get my cell phone and laptop to work right, I might think about trusting a car or truck

[@coda821]

I've never had a computer that didn't crash.

[@jakebrakebill]

@@coda821 thank you, or phone

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

I've seen many videos with Tesla's Full Self Driving which have avoided collisions that the driver did not anticipate. I've also seen the failures. As an Augment to the human driver, an A.I. driving assist would seem to be the best of both worlds.

[@jakebrakebill]

@@mikewurlitzer5217 right before retiring a few years ago, the company I drove semi-trucks for, were getting new trucks with that kind of assistance. don't know if they've worked the bugs out but going into a single lane construction zone with K rails on both sides, where the speed limit was still 55mph, the truck would freak out and lockup the breaks, not good when you're not expecting it.

[@pinguman13]

I’m Mexican so I’m used to people complaining about someone else stealing your jobs. AI will not steal your job. Someone else that knows how to use AI will. It is not time to cry and complain. It is time to learn as mush as possible from these new and amazing technologies.

[@glenmartin2437]

The job market I started in is gone. Few bosses gave me any training, period. I trained my subordinates and when they were trained, I was fired. I started working on vacuum tube electronics, transitioned through transistors, DIPs, SMDs. SMDs or surface mount devices are not easily repaired, if repairable at all. 3 or 4 layer printed circuit boards difficult to repair - a real nightmare. If a chip is no longer manufactured, many times, there is no replacement and $200, 000 computers, mass spectrometers, etc. can longer function for lack of a $5.00 chip.😮 This is insane and not sustainable!

[@natmarelnam4871]

"If you're afraid of losing your job to AI, just stop doing your job for a few months and demand more money for the job. That will make the companies choose humans that protest, over AIs that don't." - Fran Dresher and all the geniuses at the WGA. (EDIT And 'ironically', this video only shows him as a talking head. It's not going to steal his job, but AI can do everything he's shown doing, quite well if implemented correctly.)

[@83licata]

No it wont, just look at the automotive strikes over the last 40 years! The jobs in the end were still eliminated!

[@kev3d]

@@William0271 I'm not sure which automated channels you are seeing, but the ones I have been seeing are ridiculously generic, unengaging, and often inaccurate.

[@aware2action]

Humans create robots to outsmart humans🤯. How many times we have outsmarted ourselves in the past, without issues successfully. How many times failed? Why we were successful, and why we failed? Statistics can be manipulated, past history cannot be. Just something to think about🤔.

[@mtamech535]

@@kev3dyes, _now_ they are.

[@jaijaiwanted]

That only creates a greater incentive for companies to adopt AI systems. Why would they want to hire people not working, and demanding more money for the work? This strategy is quite flawed.

[@jackthebasenji1]

Bus driver here, they can't get enough drivers.

[@tanners885]

That job is next, and they're already working on it. Say goodbye to it in the next 5 to 10 yrs. Learn to code.

[@lexy5959]

Why yes you provide the funding for their tuition and also give them money to fend for themselves while they take time from their source of income ​to learn cording as you've suggested ✨ and I bet it's such an easy topic that they can upgrade asap @@tanners885

[@yatarookayama8329]

@@tanners885 what make you think that AI won't learn to code better than 99.9% of all humans ?

[@jr-yn4lk]

Driving is soon to be replaced by automation. However, automating the process of changing tires is still another 10-20 years away.

[@jr-yn4lk]

@@tanners885 Dude, learn to code is already a meme by now.

[@chuckpalmer284]

Last time I checked tractors and fork lifts are not self driven. I do hear people say "yes these jobs will be eliminated but think how many jobs will be created to take their place. Why doesn't anyone state what those new jobs will be?

[@coreysuffield]

farm tractors can self drive for sure, using gps and planned routes. for like nearly the last 10 years. check video from this recent CES, there was a company pitching an autonomous tractor, farmer can control from an app to do specific task interventions otherwise it just does a pre-specificed task

[@freedomwriter1995]

A lot of tech jobs at Google, Apple, and Amazon are actually at risk of being eliminated because AI is better and cheaper.

[@ollicron7397]

This is actually okay, despite what it sounds those places are not good to work at. FAANG as it stands is an imploding bubble of wokeness. Needless to say those kind of places that abuse AI are not worth working for either way. Trust me.

[@elenabob4953]

And because they focused on a strategy where they take certain people just because they don't want the competition to have them

[@GodbornNoven]

​​@@amandzzz you're entirely wrong because you're not factoring in future advancements in AI. Although i do agree with your point that a lot of the layoffs have been useless baggage for the company. There's a big part that isn't that, there's already many who are losing their jobs to artificial intelligence. And based on the current patterns we're observing it doesn't seem to be getting any worse. this is like saying a medicine doesn't work well and won't replace an existing treatment even though it might only be in the testing stages and still has many problems that need to be worked out. Point is that it simply doesn't make sense to think of AI as being just what it is right now. You need to look at the bigger picture and think 5 years ahead. Your argument is quite simply that AI won't replace a lot of jobs in the near future because it's still not good enough for now. And I agree with that point. However what irks me is that you speak as though you know the future and that you know AI isn't gonna improve and go beyond its current limitations. It won't even be a matter of decades. It's only up to a decade or even half that away. Possibly less than that too.

[@mattolivier1835]

And better looking!

[@osirisgolad]

And these new, better jobs you are speaking of Mr Stossel, are they making people happier, healthier and more fulfilled? Recent history seems to indicate the opposite.

[@coda821]

Jobs that don't have physical labor R severely aggravating.

[@Madchris8828]

​@coda821 what you don't love sitting in front of a computer screen for 6-8 hours a day?

[@ebinrock]

​@@coda821Agreed. Gym memberships and finding extra time to exercise wouldn't be an issue if by and large we still had physical jobs.

[@farallimacha]

Definitely not. 30 years ago I started working with CNC machines. At the time I was told that this technology will be easier than traditional machining,but few years later I ended up working with 5 CNC machines simultaneously,and lifting 5 times more,due to efficiency and speed of those machines.

[@Recovering_Californian]

Digital cameras put thousands out of work. I used to work for Kodak (Qualex in Burbank, CA). Overnight film processing was big business. I had to move on like everyone else.

[@workingcountry1776]

Kodak and Xrox are based in Rochester, NY. 10s of thousands of God jobs gone and they weren't replaced unless you count low pay stuff where ppl are on assistance to afford food. That said i love my digital photography

[@sexistspaghettios]

What did you move onto if you don't mind me asking.

[@Recovering_Californian]

@@sexistspaghettios Netflix for a couple years (as a tech). I worked as a tech for Qualex too. Then after that I got into software development. Own two software businesses now.

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

@@Recovering_CalifornianEnjoy it while it lasts, A.I. can already code and it won't take long to catch up.

[@CarterEdison777]

Ha, Kodak put themselves out of business! They invented the digital camera and then scrapped it, thinking it would never catch on

[@j4s0n39]

Imagine the damage to our economy if someone figured out how to run an elevator without a human elevator operator.

[@themobseat]

If there are no jobs for low skilled workers, what are they to do? Welfare? Crime?

[@cleverwitticismhere6922]

I'm all for a robot John Stossel. It's the only way we'll keep getting Stossel videos forever.

[@josueveguilla9069]

How about no?

[@samsherrard7390]

The ego of the teamsters to stand in the way of innovation is infuriating

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

The gang/thug mentality coupled with Marxist ideology has always been very dangerous and damaging to business.

[@jfkst1]

I don't think AI should be stopped. I also think most people like Stossel are ignorant on the transformational change that would take place. AI will not just take the entry level jobs and even if there are new jobs, the transition is likely to be massively detrimental to many.

[@ollicron7397]

We should just let it happen, people already complain about their mediocre jobs and often compare it to slavery. The thing people don't understand is that the problem will bring light to the necessity of human value. People these days especially those in HR positions are sick and twisted individuals whose perpetual cycle of malice needs to be stopped. And AI is the gateway for that.

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

The problem with A.I. is already baked into the code. The leftist agenda has already shown its influence in the output of Chat and other A.I. engines. Those A.I. engines which rely on Google searches of the internet are by definition already contaminated with leftist ideology.

[@thebourg]

I would be all for self driving cars taking 90% of the drivers off the road, lol

[@wataki2]

kinda same. Lol

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

Anime Localizers will lose their jobs to AI...and that's a good thing!!😁

[@scarlet_phonavis6734]

Idk ghost stories wouldnt exist Or the yu yu hakusho or s cry ed dub

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

@@scarlet_phonavis6734 Ah "Ghost Stories", the good ole days when you could be offensive and funny. Ironically written by some of the same people that are woke REEEE Tardes today. "I know now that It could never work between us...not because you're a rabbit, but because you're black."🤣 And sure dubs like that could still exist, it will just be that AI will translate the actual dialogue that is then used by the person(s) writing the basically original script.

[@josueveguilla9069]

Not really. You can still mistranslate intentionally even with AI. So…. Nothing really changes. And not a "good thing".

[@BS-vx8dg]

I do not want the government attempting to regulate AI in an attempt to save jobs; if the government tries to "save" us this way, they will retard economic and technological progress, such as they did in the telecommunications industry. *HOWEVER* , this does not mean that the impact of AI is going to be a repeat of past technological advances. AI is qualitatively different, and the scope of its impact on jobs may well exceed our ability to *ever* replace those jobs with new jobs for humans. And that will have unforeseeable consequences on our culture.

[@TakeBackTheMoralOrder]

We continue to watch a channel where the host is either not bright enough to see this or is just pushing propaganda. What the hell are we doing here?

[@_taxman_]

Well said, but unfortunately Ai has already flagged and shadow banned your comment for this nefarious use of the "r word" not to mention the sentiment analysis it ran of your comment being negative against it. 😅

[@loki76]

I agree with this. Having them regulate it will just destroy it. But there needs to be something happening. There will be millions without jobs and it's not just a matter of just changing careers because every single industry/work/finance is being reduced because of AI. AI is literally like creating an artificial being that can replace what humans do. That is Not the same as aiding a human like a Forklift. So what would have to happen is UBI and stuff like that. It's supposed to benefit humanity right. It doesn't if it creates starvation for a huge group of people with no means to gain income to feed and house themselves. So it will be this weird part of a huge swath just getting paid to do nothing.

[@danielboone8256]

I think it’s a good thing as this will mean an abundance of higher quality goods for lower costs. As the Austrian School puts it, wealth is best measured by access to goods and services, not the amount of some currency owned.

[@tetrahedrontri]

That’s exactly what people said when Wikipedia came out, my dude. Read some of Nick Gillespie’s coverage of this whole situation - he outlines specifically how the concerns you expressed were the same concerns of technologies past. It’s an issue that has been dealt with before. Also yes, AI will probably have vast impacts on our culture, but it’s an issue of our culture, not the technology. Teens aren’t suicidal because social media exists, they’re suicidal because they haven’t been taught that life isn’t what you see on TV.

[@ColdPotato]

"My toilet is plugged!" "That'll be $500 please".

[@jimlarkin1400]

yeah if they are all unemployed guess what they can't pay fool

[@devineandconquer9508]

the better question is what to do with all this technology change? the industrial revolution is easy to look at because it happened already but the present and future is unknown, and we naturally fear the unknown.

[@Xeverous]

Back in time like 80-90% of society worked on farms. Today it is just few %. And what? 80-90% unemployment?

[@yatarookayama8329]

And what? so not 80% but around 45% of jobs are fake aka not real economy ! Remember how they called it essential workers that's what real economy is like the rest it's fake one ...

[@chesspwn7457]

Technology can't be stopped, the goal should be to guide it and try to make the integration as painless as possible. Much better than the futile effort of stopping it.

[@flynnparish9833]

Our robot overlords probably won't hire you if you protest their take over.

[@ktanner11]

Money

[@nnov_tech_chan7891]

John, your most videos are pure optimism, and I love it.

[@TheAdderkop]

The problem you aren't thinking about is that the jobs we lose are simple ones, and they will likely be replaced by more complex jobs. The fact is that IQ determines how complex a job you can do, and a large chunk of our population is already struggling to find jobs that are simple enough for them to do. It's a fact that at an IQ of 83, you were determined that there was no position in the army that you could do without causing more harm than benefit. This included menial jobs like a cook etc. And it's a fact that no amount of training will change the fact that certain jobs are simply too complex for certain IQ ranges. 10% of the population are already struggling with jobs because of their IQ, and making the average job more complex will increase this part of the population.

[@khukri_wielderxxx1962]

I'd like to see Congress get replaced by A.I.

[@ajlenze8]

It would have to be replace by A.S. = Artifical Stupidity.

[@Gitn2it]

It depends on who programmed the AI. They would be the ones who are really in charge. Right now, these people are way too woke. It would be a disaster.

[@hbsharkman]

​@@Gitn2it you can technically do that right now, you just put key points into the AI to tell it to be something and it'll choose according those points.

[@elenabob4953]

Like the benevolent AI that will implement the "real communism? You know, like the wet dream of WEF. Be careful what you are wishing for

[@coda821]

If they replace the media with AI, then politicians will be an illusion.

[@TahoeJones]

plural noun: Luddites DEROGATORY a person opposed to new technology or ways of working. "a small-minded Luddite resisting progress" 2. HISTORICAL a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811-16).

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

Politicians don't fear angry voters as much as they fear having their skeletons exposed if they don't do as the oligarchy says.

[@Gumby1978]

I enjoy your videos. Very informative!

[@hatemonger8902]

The problem with AI isn't that we're building better machines, we are building something that will replace us as the apex sentience on this planet. There is no chance in Hell that it turns out to be beneficial for all of mankind considering how we treat things that are lower on the food chain and other humans for that matter.

[@MustPassTruck]

Waaaaaahhh😭😭😭😭 Competition for my Job!!! Government put your BOOT on them!!!

[@tanners885]

Learn to code

[@copper2walcott]

another great episode. Keep up the good work Mr. Stossel!!

[@auramdickerson112]

I have not worked since covid began. Nothing to work for. No women, family, goals, money is offensive now.

[@hiei_99-48]

So what exactly are the new jobs going to be when AI/Robots take jobs like Programming, Surgery, Law, Architecture???? Like what better jobs will humans move onto, and how do we know that there will be enough work for everyone? Or are we all just going to have to compete with each other harder then ever???

[@ollicron7397]

It's possible in the future for sure. It's likely companies already have the AI to do everything you just said. But the issue people are misunderstanding is that any company abusing AI like that is not worth working for. To answer your question, for example a sound engineer would currently have to work 80 hours a week to do what he currently does, whereas with AI he would only cut that time by half. McDonald's workers may just have to operate the cash registers and clean the places.

[@workingcountry1776]

exactly. AI attorney would be perfect. But not fair

[@Diapolo10]

I don't see AI taking over programming jobs, because even in the worst-case scenario you'd need someone to tell the AI exactly what kind of a program it should create. And that's essentially a form of programming, only instead of talking directly to a compiler you're writing instructions for what more or less amounts to a transpiler. Even then, LLMs aren't really capable of understanding things. They're limited in what kind of code they can produce, and I don't see them replacing developer jobs beyond juniors any time soon.

[@sidwhiting665]

@@Diapolo10 Yep, I've been a software engineer since 2004, and I dabbled in programming as far back as the 1980s. Coding is the lowest-level IT job, aside from Help Support. Since the 80s, we've developed code generators that make it possible to say, draw a square on the screen. It used to take a competent programmer about 10 minutes to correctly line up, size the box, then bang out the code to make it actually appear. Today, you drag and drop a box on the screen, and with a mouse click or two you position it and size it. Takes 10 seconds. It's not exactly AI, but the tool creates all the code for you to achieve the result of what you want. AI won't know how, where or, why to position and size the square though. A human mind has to tell it that. The difference is now you can create thousands of lines of code that would've taken a week or more in just a few minutes. It avoids the laborious drudgery of banging out repetitive lines of code over and over.

[@Diapolo10]

@@busimagen I don't think that's quite correct. "A single executive ordering a program like she's ordering a pizza" might sound fine on the surface, but the end result can be something completely different from what said executive had in mind if they're not thorough enough. In a business you're writing software to meet some specific end goal, not something that sort of meets the requirements. You also need to factor in maintenance. Software is rarely ever complete, changes need to be made over time - if you just give a large language model the same prompt with a few tweaks the new program can look and feel completely different from the original, changing things even if you didn't intend for that to happen. A single executive with zero programming experience wouldn't be able to do anything about that at all. Also worth considering security vulnerabilities, and the resulting licensing hell.

[@jeremykraenzlein5975]

"If my opponent had been around when they invented the electric light bulb, he would have pushed for laws to protect the candle-making industry" - Paraphrase of an old political speech

[@robofreak425]

Book I read back in middle school went over something similar except the ruling people did reject the introduction of the lightbulb because it would put the candle makers out of work. Some story about a guy born into a stagnant society that decides everything you do breaking free to decide for himself and wanting to help others in that society break free as well.

[@Gen-X-Memories]

This is so true. Could you imagine if protesters were able to keep cars off the roads at the start of the 20th century. You can't stop progress.

[@OldGayGamer]

I'm excited about what AI can do, and I think it's futile and counterproductive to try to stop it. BUT - like many people, I'm afraid of losing my job. Sure, there have been many times when tech forced people to find different jobs. But suddenly losing your job today often means becoming homeless, as you're not likely to just be able to go into a new job right away that pays what you need to survive. I can go get a job at McDonald's tomorrow, but I'd be living in my car. Changing careers is hard, I'm old and tired.

[@unkelruckuss]

I wanted to be an Elevator Operator when I was a child. Glad that I chose a different course.

[@JJs_playground]

The laws about humans not allowed to drive will happen, but it will take a couple of generations before it occurs. You can't implement it now, because too many of us grew up driving our own cars. But I'm noticing less and less young people getting their license when they turn 16. My neighbour just got her license and she's 33. My friend's daughters got their license at 22. I feel that millennials and Gen Zs have gotten so used to ride sharing platforms (Uber, Lyft, etc) that as we get autonomous vehicles it'll become more convenient and cheaper to rideshare making owning a car a big hassle. And that's when law makers can implement laws about humans not being allowed to drive. I can see the first steps to these rules coming around 2050 time frame. Just like we have laws that you aren't allowed to ride a horse on the street. Also, the difference with AI revolution vs the industrial revolution and computer revolution is that AI has the ability to think and improve itself. That wasn't possible with the previous revolutions.

[@martincolvill5453]

My 45 year old son has never had a driver's license. He rides public transit or has his wife cart him around. He's not lazy at all. Works for the post office and pretty much does everything at home. He just has never had a desire to drive. Meanwhile, his two brothers have destroyed every car I've ever given or sold to them.

[@coda821]

All they would have to do is multiply insurance rates for human drivers.

[@aaronmorgan2476]

Robo taxis STILL have a baby sitter lol. They watch the car from monitors and even drive it remotely.

[@matthewloewenstein993]

I agree. However, this is an inflection point. Unlike any point in history, AI & robotics has the potential to replace most if not all manual labor jobs. Construction, trucking, food preparation, paralegals, computer scientists, artists, and on and on. The biggest problem is the speed at which this could happen. We are not talking about a few industries over the course of 20 years. This COULD be most labor and a good deal of white collar positions in the course of one decade. So many jobs, that the economy could not possibly absorb in such a small period. In addition, governments actions of raising minimum wages will likely accelerate the elimination of low level jobs. This is a more dynamic problem than in the past. We must be prepared for what's coming, even if there are few solutions.

[@jeffpiatt3879]

My experience with computer programs is that all of them "just barely operate." My home computer has critical software failures, regularly, that require reloading. Computer programs have crashed planes, cause vehicular crashes, etc. At the end of the day, you just have to wait a short time for a software program to hang or fail. Worst case, you turn off the electricity.

[@ob1n]

Ain't no lie 🙋🏼‍♂️

[@GodbornNoven]

With all due offense. This comment is written by someone who has no idea what they're talking about. 😂 Except the part where you can turn off electricity for it and yeah that honestly makes sense lol

[@alchobum]

Software can have problems, but weak software is generally the result of poor testing and early release of known buggy stuff. Also, software for a desktop has no real standards wrt safety. Software for things like aircraft flight controls, heart pacemakers, and driverless cars is treated differently. Some of the methodology for web and desktop software (ship it and the customers can be the testers, over and over) would amount to criminal negligence in life critical systems. Such systems are necessarily made more reliable and more tolerant of adverse conditions, and tested, tested, tested.

[@seanatsnow]

No robot could ever replace Richard Simmons...

[@DeAthWaGer]

Pauly Shore is close enough with his robotic acting

[@elultimo102]

Any robot could replace Joe "Potato Head" Biden.

[@joe42m13]

Mr. Burns has entered the chat

[@Planeet-Long]

Creating a new business now is extremely difficult because you need to hire a legion of lawyers to decipher the libraries full of regulations, in the future robo-lawyers will do this within seconds and make it easier to create a new independent business.

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

I do not see how anyone can sleep at night when AI is taking over our world. I am really, really scared.

[@Untolddead]

I think debating about jobs isn't truly getting to what's scary about AI. Yes there are a lot of technologies that made life more convenient, safer, and made new jobs. But are the jobs truly better? Our world is full of convenience and getting more convenient every day. But we are also becoming more depressed, deviant, and less fulfilled. We are becoming like that mouse utopia experiment. Will our lives be better when we no longer have to do a creative job? Or go outside? I doubt that. Yes maybe we'll get jobs like the Jetsons where he just pressed a button all day. Some people already have jobs like that. But it seems the farther we are away from the actual creation of stuff the less we feel fulfilled in life. Can we stop AI? No.

[@coda821]

If AI is controlling all these things,. it means that corporations would be infiltrating & controlling everything that automation handles.

[@Untolddead]

​@@coda821 I'm not talking about control. I'm saying we are sacrificing humanity for convivence and it's destroying our mental state.

[@coda821]

@@Untolddead Both of these things R bad consequences.

[@leoshell9399]

I am skeptical because people don't know where to stop.... and eventually take it too far.

[@cyberwarlord7363]

More AI less humans. We need AI for everything, news, politics, teachers.

[@ASoldiersLuckyarm]

My father in law is helping robots replace workers for getting people their groceries they order. So all they will have to pay is very little for someone to deliver them. Not pay someone to shop and deliver.

[@private_citizen]

And the number of jobs that used to pick product will be replaced by jobs to monitor, maintenance, and intervene in edge cases for the product picking robots.

[@falkensmaize]

@@private_citizenAnd you will need far, far fewer people to do that.

[@mattdillon4398]

@@falkensmaize That's what they've always said but it never happens. When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin it could do the work of 10 people in much less time. Do you know what happened? People didn't lose their jobs but the demand for cotton went so high that it created more jobs than before! We have a shortage (not a surplus) of workers because people are too lazy, entitled and fat on government handouts to look for work! Companies are doing what they have to and that is innovation.

[@showtime2629]

There is a Hemingway line where one character asks another how he went bankrupt, two ways slowly, then suddenly. I do believe there is a history of innovation being great for society. However, every time we make something a little more convenient, a little more automated, we lose something. I think what AI threatens to do is rapidly escalate human beings worst and laziest tendencies. There is also a quote from Starship Troopers, something given has no value. AI might very well rob us of all our value and value that we derive from being useful.

[@freebird7369]

I usually agree with you but you are wrong on this one. This is different. It will take way more jobs than it creates. Unemployment is low because people have given up looking for a decent job. Everyone says it will create all these new jobs but no one can say where.

[@private_citizen]

It's not easy to predict future innovations and the jobs they create. When the horse and buggy was getting replaced with automobiles, no one at that time knew there would be a whole cottage industry of jobs created around cars. Window tinting, after market body customization, lift kits, bumper stickers, custom stereos, body wraps, custom upholstery, microchip manufacturing, quick oil change shops, detail shops, speed trap revenue, rubber tire manufacturing, the list goes on. Not to forget way more jobs exist in manufacturing cars themselves then was ever needed for a horse buggy.

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

The creation of robots for all sorts of tasks will be a very large employer of people who make themselves employable. Coding of course. Maintaining the robots.

[@FiFo911]

The immediate jobs it takes are low skilled jobs. Fast food workers, journalists...

[@wompa70]

Governments will interfere with daily lives as much as they can get away with. The Danny DeVito movie "Other People's Money" has some great lines about businesses changing and NOT changing with consumer needs.

[@JCNL871]

Ah yes, hospitality, that stable $2.31/hr cushy job

[@patrickbateman1660]

Ahhh yes manufacturing a cushy 0.2 cents an hour in Bangladesh

[@chesshooligan1282]

We can outlaw tractors and you can do agriculture instead of hospitality -- some good old-fashioned ploughing with a couple of oxen and a yoke -- if you find that more interesting. Or, if that's not your cup of tea and you haven't got any marketable skills, perhaps we can print you a degree in brain surgery.

[@clayton7825]

He's obviously never worked a hospitality job.

[@chesshooligan1282]

My previous, completely-harmless comment has been deleted (by AI?), so let me try again. Do you have any skills other than existing? There are plenty of jobs left to do in the trades.

[@JCNL871]

@@chesshooligan1282 Calm down man, I was just kidding around because I found it funny that John Stossel mentioned the hospitality industry as if it’s a career path.

[@politicalguy8941]

I would like to nominate AI for President. And let AI also replace all Congress and Senate jobs first.

[@andyh8239]

Not the regular AI though, the most woke itteration of it.

[@CF542]

Couldn't be any worse than what we have now.

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

And the USSC! Any computer using our Constitution as it's Foundational Rule Book would be vastly superior than 9 political hacks and their endless 5-4 or 6-3 decisions. If our laws are that complex that the ALLEGED best and brightest [who do not know what a woman is] cannot agree then no citizen should ever be expected to know and obey our laws.

[@Spiffspacer]

Great content as always

[@Viconius]

Things will change as they always have. Perhaps we'll have to figure out what to do if we aren't required to labor for a living.

[@mannyechaluce3814]

"We don't need anymore strong people to pick things up", if that statement does not scare you, I am not sure what will.....

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

Will when the EMP goes off and it's back to the stone age.

[@_taxman_]

Stossel is usually pretty spot on, but this is beyond short sighted. For every new technology replacing jobs in the past, yes people could move on to different jobs. But what happens when every job you want to move to requires 5 years experience and oh is also getting replaced in droves by Ai. That coupled with mass migration, we're playing musical chairs with with Ai that can replicate itself 1000s of times over for every remaining chair, not to mention build new chairs that itself will occupy. We need harder hitting journalism on this than the tired old Luddite argument. You failed to address any of the top experts warnings about Ai? About how all billionaires are building compounds in prep for societal collapse? About how Ai can target all industries and at all levels from simple tasks to research and development simultaneously? I could go on but this was just naive and sad. Do better John. You can't hand wave this topic off.

[@vinnieboombatzmd3508]

You're right. Many people will transition to other jobs in other fields. But you ignored the fact that millions are working at jobs that will be replaced by AI and robotics but are intellectually incapable of learning the new marketable skills needed to move to a new job. The only future for them is a life on some future government welfare program that will have to deal with supporting them because they'll no longer have any value in the labor market.

[@coda821]

Then there's ppl like me. I don't want a shitty job that doesn't require physical labor.

[@matthewlee4834]

Have always been interested in Stossel's view on this. He's always been big on innovation and the allowing the market to decide. And in most cases, i absolutely agree. But something about AI feels different and more sinister to me.

[@samuelharris2533]

Self checkouts, driverless cars & trucks won't take jobs, they create jobs; someone has to build the dumb things. Someone has to service them, collect money, manage, order parts. Become an IT person & you'll be the robot's boss.

[@odieses1]

That works up until we make machines to do those roles.

[@caribbeanbound8357]

Businesses do not exist to create jobs. Forcing businesses to employ people is a violation of the rights of the business owner.

[@adrianminjares7310]

This is true. Businesses should not be forced to provide jobs by the government. But businesses cannot survive without sales. And if businesses are not providing jobs, no one has money to buy the products and services of a business. If I see two products on a store shelf. One product is made by a company that employs many people and the other product is made by a very small team of people and an army of robots. I'm going to buy from the company who is giving people jobs.

[@bluestorm9651]

No jobs = no money = no business.

[@caribbeanbound8357]

@@adrianminjares7310 I agree and its definitely a balance that goes back and forth. But the best way to keep things from going too crazy is to let businesses regulate themselves in this arena. the economics of employment in all areas of business is too complex to be centrally planned by a government. The market can react much quicker if they start moving too far in any direction.

[@caribbeanbound8357]

@@bluestorm9651 that doesn't invalidate my statement though.

[@bluestorm9651]

@@caribbeanbound8357 Businesses exist to create money for the people who run them. Without jobs there will be no money for them to make. So it does invalidate your statement.

[@CASM117]

Thanks for the content 👍🏼👍🏼

[@nachc6459]

Being a teacher or waiter is not a good job

[@msromike123]

I'm not sure unemployment numbers have much value any longer. Perhaps we should be looking at how many people live below a realistic poverty line. Or how much money in government handouts the average American receives.

[@private_citizen]

Or just number of jobs vs working age census.

[@coda821]

They lied about these numbers anyway.

[@Wanderer2035]

This change is much more different than historical change due to job disruption. This time it’s gonna be much different. Many people will get replaced by AI, but AI isn’t creating more jobs, just taking them all up until there’s no more job market left.

[@peterslattery9581]

In my honest opinion. I CANNOT WAIT for self driving cars. There going to be so awesome and I'm ready for all the good that they will bring.

[@jmanswat2457]

Many in life want to get paid for doing little to nothing. We all wish this were so, but Ai will make our society more efficient, probably even more affordable! What makes humans truly unique is the ability to adapt to ANY ENVIRONMENT. It is better to see what improvements can be made and be willing to change. That's what makes us better. If u see your job threatened, maybe you should consider getting another. No one is only able to do one job and one job only for all their life. Embrace change. Embrace YOUR OWN GROWTH!

[@mehoyminoy1326]

I agree that humans will adapt but “more affordable?” Has your products not been outsourced to become “more affordable.” Has prices not risen? The only thing that’s “affordable” in life is garbage/obsolete technology. It should be more affordable, yes, if things worked as it should but companies inflate prices because they know the consumers will still pay for it. Edit: and sadly they cant keep up with government inflation

[@yatarookayama8329]

Maybe will but probably you COPE , see the movie Ghost in the shell that's more like how things will go aka Kamikazi AI driving drones , etc