General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Here's How the AI Crash Happens [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Jobs aren't going away, though specific ones will and many jobs will change radically. There are all kinds of other jobs that need doing, so there will be disruption and dislocation. But ultimately two things will happen:
1) The unsustainable concentration of wealth and income will either come undone by reform or revolution. Reform could lead to things like guaranteed basic income from the huge productivity and profits.
2) There will remain for the foreseeable future (say to the end of 2100) a need for judgment, especially with AI. There will be two broad categories of jobs in the future: high touch and high judgment.
2a) High touch is all about human-human interaction. Live entertainment, turning a patient over in a hospital bed, teach a child a craft. If robots are fixing cars and painting walls, people will want to interact with people. Yes there will be loners (
(a little bit)) and withdrawn people with their tamaguchis and their AI pals and AI pets, etc. (not me). But most people like at least some people and that will become valuable and desirable by contrast.
2b) With AI slop and "hallucinations", which will persist even when high level reasoning is integrated, there is and will remain a need to ride herd over AI agents and bots and robots. An AI might develop a plan for accomplishing a goal that involves writing code, but also how the code will interact with people and how it will be sold and marketed etc. All of that will have to be reviewed, tested, adjusted, or aborted, as the case may be.
2c) Beyond judgment, there will always be a need for creativity. People who say that AI can't be creative don't really understand creativity and its wellsprings. However, AI creativity will mainly be thinking inside the box. People can supply outside-the-box creativity beyond judgment.