Artificial Intelligence will completely reshape our society very soon. If a universal income is not provided in a timely fashion (as AI makes many workers no longer relevant) we are going to be in big trouble.
I think about that very often these days. Governments worldwide must act on that now. Because even if they'll start a legislative process to implement it, it will take a long time and we are running out of time.
The ATM did destroy bank tellers. BUT who cares. Life got better, now we don't have to line up at an ATM to cause a run on a bank. We can do it with our phones!
But seriously. It's just change, it's always happening.
I dunno, we seem to be struggling with a lot of kids who don't fit into an academic school run, and who no longer have lots of options in the form of practical jobs they can do instead when they're 16 and fed up with school.
Not sure which country you are speaking about but in the majority of the countries in the world they're not.
Those jobs are severely underpaid. Also if supply increases, demand also decreases, hence leading to further loss.
Imagine the level of hopelessness, anger and despair which is already the case in the avg population because of inflation etc, if their jobs are suddenly automated.
Bank tellers weren't educated to become Bank tellers,
They could move on to other front desk jobs.
But things corporations want to automate with AI are basically the core of many people who got educated for that job.
The change you are talking about is not gonna switch easily.
We don't have to sit in an Ivory tower and say, "change happens", you can't just make an entire generation to become educated for something and just drop em.
Note I said lots of options, not no options. Also, especially electrical trades is quite skilled these days and might not be for everyone either.
I talked to someone running a warehouse a couple of years ago. They got containers packed with cans from abroad. The cans had to be put on pallets so the warehouse robots could store them.
So they had one guy who's sole job was to pack the individual cans from the containers and pack them on pallets. The guy doing it loved it. He put on his music and packed those cans, not having to interact with anyone for most of the day. The mindless job left him free to ponder (he read lots of academic articles at home). So, great for him that he found that job.
However, the warehouse robot means there's like 10 people working that giant warehouse instead of several dozen...
Electrical trades have been sliding up the skills scale. I don't know about plumbing, but I'd guess they also have to deal with more and more automation / electronics
What ATM? Around here they are phasing out the ATMs bit by bit so it is getting harder and harder to get cash. There are two ATMs for a village of 40K people here, and I would not be surprised if next year there is only one.
Which people are you thinking of? The 22yo who just got out of college? Or the 50yo whose entire career and experience are getting automated away? Is the idea that they'd all pick up Python in a couple weeks in some bootcamp if their expected careers didn't work out?
Dumb people exist -just as ugly people do- that already have employment problems. And education can't fix it, because there is only so much they are capable of learning.
As we do away with the easy dumb jobs, we condemn more people to poverty. We surely need to figure something out, specially if we are going to keep raising the bar.
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken
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I think about that very often these days. Governments worldwide must act on that now. Because even if they'll start a legislative process to implement it, it will take a long time and we are running out of time.
The ATM did destroy bank tellers. BUT who cares. Life got better, now we don't have to line up at an ATM to cause a run on a bank. We can do it with our phones!
But seriously. It's just change, it's always happening.
I dunno, we seem to be struggling with a lot of kids who don't fit into an academic school run, and who no longer have lots of options in the form of practical jobs they can do instead when they're 16 and fed up with school.
umm, plumbing and electrical trades. They are like having a license to print money.
Not sure which country you are speaking about but in the majority of the countries in the world they're not. Those jobs are severely underpaid. Also if supply increases, demand also decreases, hence leading to further loss. Imagine the level of hopelessness, anger and despair which is already the case in the avg population because of inflation etc, if their jobs are suddenly automated. Bank tellers weren't educated to become Bank tellers, They could move on to other front desk jobs. But things corporations want to automate with AI are basically the core of many people who got educated for that job. The change you are talking about is not gonna switch easily. We don't have to sit in an Ivory tower and say, "change happens", you can't just make an entire generation to become educated for something and just drop em.
Note I said lots of options, not no options. Also, especially electrical trades is quite skilled these days and might not be for everyone either.
I talked to someone running a warehouse a couple of years ago. They got containers packed with cans from abroad. The cans had to be put on pallets so the warehouse robots could store them.
So they had one guy who's sole job was to pack the individual cans from the containers and pack them on pallets. The guy doing it loved it. He put on his music and packed those cans, not having to interact with anyone for most of the day. The mindless job left him free to ponder (he read lots of academic articles at home). So, great for him that he found that job.
However, the warehouse robot means there's like 10 people working that giant warehouse instead of several dozen...
Electrical trades have been sliding up the skills scale. I don't know about plumbing, but I'd guess they also have to deal with more and more automation / electronics
What ATM? Around here they are phasing out the ATMs bit by bit so it is getting harder and harder to get cash. There are two ATMs for a village of 40K people here, and I would not be surprised if next year there is only one.
What a pile of nonsense. Yes some dumb jobs will go away, but more will be created and people will quickly adapt.
Leaps in productivity never lead to increased unemployment or reduced standards of living.
Which people are you thinking of? The 22yo who just got out of college? Or the 50yo whose entire career and experience are getting automated away? Is the idea that they'd all pick up Python in a couple weeks in some bootcamp if their expected careers didn't work out?
Dumb people exist -just as ugly people do- that already have employment problems. And education can't fix it, because there is only so much they are capable of learning.
As we do away with the easy dumb jobs, we condemn more people to poverty. We surely need to figure something out, specially if we are going to keep raising the bar.
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken
- Bertrand Russell