I am confident AI is going to crater the economy and cause mass job losses for one specific reason familiar to all of us
Posted by wyc1inc@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 153 comments
In our adulthood, our generation has dealt with one economic crisis after another. 9/11, GFC, Pandemic, post-pandemic inflation and run up in housing costs.
So of course as we all enter into our mid to late 40s and enter our alleged "peak earning years", AI is going to pull the rug on us. How else would the story of our generation go?
It's like watching a movie with the most obvious ending.
elmoosh@reddit
Literally the only real skill I’ve been able to use to gain employment my whole life (no education, moving constantly due to my partner’s line of work) has been my ability to write well, with good grammar and spelling. So yeah. It’s over.
Caliastanfor@reddit
Same here. Writing and communication were probably my most marketable skills and now everyone is using AI to compose letters, procedures, e-mails, etc. Very frustrating!
nomptonite@reddit
Yeah I consider myself a bit of a wordsmith for my work communications, always have. But now AI will make everyone sound professional. Also I am now knocking out 15-30 page proposals in a few hours. Which used to take up to days to get it right. Pretty soon I’m afraid I won’t even be needed at this rate
CranberryFrosty927@reddit
The irony here is you’re using AI to write the proposal and sending it to someone who has no time to read the proposal so they are running it through AI to get a quick summary of the important info. Fast forward another year and they won’t need any people involved. The AI’s will just negotiate the proposal with each other.
nomptonite@reddit
Yeah absolutely…So I’m just trying to squeeze out another 10-15 years of my corporate career… then I’ll go work at Costco or something doing whatever they need me to do
Humble_Ladder@reddit
Yeah, I turn 48 this year. If I can just get 7 more years, maybe I can cost cut my way to affording to live on an early retirement, and develop some farm income with my 5 acres.
mrmadchef@reddit
I'm seriously thinking about just skipping ahead to the job at Costco. They're building one quite close to me.
Right_Hour@reddit
nomptonite@reddit
For real. Get in now while they still pay well and have benefits (supposedly)… Afraid over time I’ll get watered down just like almost everything.
Elegant-Ninja6384@reddit
1 to 1.5 years. Unfortunately.
Have to pivot.
nomptonite@reddit
Nah full disclosure, I’m not just a proposal writer. It’s just one of my tasks. I still manage a team of 10-40 people depending on our projects. We’ll still need people physically doing what we do, so someone will have to manage them.
Raz0r-@reddit
Rivster79@reddit
The good news is that spell check has been a thing for like 30 years!
Perfect_Caregiver_90@reddit
Add in Excel skills and yep.
__Geg__@reddit
You forgot the DotCom Bubble bursting
Pale_Row1166@reddit
Does anyone remember there was one Super Bowl in the very early 2000s, and every single ad was “dot com,” which was quite new at the time. Bubble burst like 5 years later.
TP_Crisis_2020@reddit
Much sooner than 5 years after that. I graduated high school in 2002 and the bubble was already starting to pop.
Optimusprima@reddit
It was the year 2000; my senior year of college.
All my frat dude friends were pooling $$ to buy all the stocks of companies that advertised. (That went to zero!)
Stock market peaked 1 month later and crashed quickly after that.
mrmadchef@reddit
I remember someone turning that into a Super Bowl ad. I vaguely remember one of the dot coms had a sock puppet mascot, and it was found by a monkey on horseback that cried.
I can't believe I just typed that and now I think I need to check myself in for a mental evaluation.
ranaldo20@reddit
I think it was etrade.
pmpork@reddit
Oh hell yeah! Remember the overstock.com gerbil cannon? Loved that commercial!
84074@reddit
.........Pepperridge farm remembers.........
Hagleboz@reddit
This was in the late 1990's and it was more like a year or two later, there were a couple Super Bowls like this.
Pale_Row1166@reddit
Ah okay, man that was almost 30 years ago - how?
Hagleboz@reddit
I know, it's scary. 😖
Traditional_Isopod80@reddit
Yeah I remember.
Weird-Ninja8827@reddit
Was that the one with Pets.com going bust after a Super Bowl ad buy?
Callmetomorrow99@reddit
Interesting point about the Super Bowl, because in the last couple of years it has been ads around bitcoin and AI. Next bubble. It’s about to burst.
mizushimo@reddit
In my town that was the worst one, the enron/dot com bubble bursting wiped out a bunch of our industry so our town became the meth pit of the world for a good 6 years
nderhill__@reddit
And we were kids at the height of the Cold War.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Babies maybe... for some broad definitions of height. But the height of the cold war was more like '57-72, peaking with the Cuban Missile crisis in '62.
phranticness@reddit
And the S&L by crisis.
CD274@reddit
We started with a recession in the early 90s too
S_A_R_K@reddit
We're undefeated
Specific-Library-312@reddit
I ain't hear no bell...
Ambitious_Toe_4357@reddit
Agentic AI actually has the possibility of putting peaple out of work. Maybe it will create jobs, but so far it is just reducing the need for people. Dot.com was a lot of new companies going bust (like an upside down V job market), not companies just removing roles (K shaped market).
TP_Crisis_2020@reddit
I dropped out of college and picked up a trade (machining). Been doing that for 23 years now, and 2 years ago finally crested the 6 figure gross income level.
Back then, trades were clowned on, and the notion was that you were going to be a loser if you didn't go to college and get a computer science degree.
Look who's laughing now.
CSWorldChamp@reddit
In the press releases, all they can talk about is how it’s the greatest new thing that’s already transforming the world.
But behind closed doors, all they anyone can talk about is that no matter how many billions they pour into it, it’s never even twitched the needle toward profitability.
The only people making money are the chip makers, who are charging premium prices for inventory that hasn’t even been built yet, for data center that don’t even exist yet.
It’s a trillion dollar money pit. The only thing keeping this craze afloat is that the worst people in the world keep shoveling billions and billions of dollars into the flames in the vain hope that somehow, someday, it will enable them to fire all their employees. They are trying to build a god so they can pray to it for money.
And when it all crashes down, they’ll expect society to bail them out like the banks did in 2008.
TexasRN1@reddit
I just watched the new documentary on Netflix. It was very interesting and well done.
DarkAngela12@reddit
What documentary?
bikemandan@reddit
The new one. Duh
TexasRN1@reddit
Sorry it was on Hulu. It’s called The AI doc: how I became an apocaloptimist.
lurkylurkeroo@reddit
My career, which is mostly built on pattern recognition (EEG), and for which I have a masters degree.
Gone in 10 years at Max. They already have auto analysis which is pretty good.
Outrageous_Picture39@reddit
GFC? GlobalFinancial Crisis?
Deron_Lancaster_PA@reddit
It's the cover narrative for the HOUSING BUBBLE perpetrated by US Banks.
Checktheusernombre@reddit
Geezus....F..C?
No-Hospital559@reddit
2008, remember ..
__Geg__@reddit
Yes
h4nd@reddit
IDK I feel like there’s gonna be another twist. Everyone’s talking about AI taking all the jobs already, so if it happens like that it’ll be too obvious. It’ll be something like all the AI companies tanking and crashing the economy after the government drained social security to try and keep inflating the bubble. THAT would be a true coup de grâce for us.
This_Entrance6629@reddit
Yes it will. Except not for the super wealthy. It will allow them to make even more money, for a period.
gravteck@reddit
I'm reading the Enron book right now. I have read the Big Short and monkey branched myself into a ton of financial literature, some narrative driven, some sober. I have done a lot of reading on the history of private equity as well starting with These Are The Plunderers. I think it's clear as day this is accounting chicanery, not economics. How are these pricing curves being worked out with operating costs, cash flow, fluid mark--to-msrket style valuations... the numbers could be anything they want them to be. It smells.
gr8Jedi_Val@reddit
It recently came to light that AI being used to filter through applications/ resumes has been turning down highest qualified applicants. It's now trying to literally make the human workforce look unintelligent.
Auyan@reddit
Enough of us are managers or in positions to make decisions. We, individually, need to do better and learn to say "No" to our leadership who tells us to use it, stand up for our fellow workers, and take some ownership over changing the future.
Elegant-Ninja6384@reddit
That’s like saying stop using email because it is to helpful.
Born_Ad519@reddit
Except AI is a hindrance.
anon-187101@reddit
yeah...
good luck with that.
burnafter3ading@reddit
On the plus side, maybe they'll convert the useless data farms into apartments?
DarkAngela12@reddit
😂😂😂 Yeah right. Capitalists would rather burn down everything they built than let anyone else benefit from it.
Konnorwolf@reddit
Companies are so quick to try to AI everything when it feels like it is in beta testing still. It's one part of tech I would be okay with never existing (the way it does today) as it's going to cause more issues then it fixes. Or at least only be used in a more passive manner.
Negative-Fun1985@reddit
The main issue is clean data, company’s are fixing that now. Some are now tagging and storing shitloads of meta data and using traditional search ML to optimize models instead of just RAG and such. As those data knowledge base improve up and downstream the “agent” tools will improve as well. The models are more than adequate. The beta part is md skills and shit. Once that front is easily formalized AI as an “operating system” will take over. Those users will be all that’s left of white collar work.
Gonzanic@reddit
We mostly use it to make funny pictures. Money well spent.
amyldoanitrite@reddit
The most pressing problem with AI is that it is going to be used first and foremost, as all new technologies have been, as a weapon of war. It is being, and is going to be, fully weaponized. Couple that with advances in robotics (drones, robot dogs, humanoid robots, we’ve all seen them) and you’ve got billionaires just itching to build themselves massive private android armies with AI brains. It’s not going to go well for us. At least human soldiers will sometimes disobey orders to kill innocent civilians and occasionally switch sides. I’m not so sure about AI bots.
Aronacus@reddit
AI has a big pproblem. It functions like a sycophant. It wants to please and by doing so, it hallucinates answers. It tells you your smarter than you are. These are all very dangerous things.
Herbert warned us about "Thinking machines" machines"
People have slowly stopped thinking and are allowing AI to think for them. I could tell you something 100% factual but if the AI tells you it's wrong, most will believe it
PickledPixie83@reddit
I work in veterinary med. People won’t believe my expertise from schooling and 23 years experience, but they do believe AI.
Konnorwolf@reddit
That makes no sense. I'm going to trust 23 years of experience and schooling over beta mode AI. At the moment it's basically a fancy Google that is wrong a lot.
PickledPixie83@reddit
Yeah you would think people would but they don’t. There’s a reason this career field has a high suicide rare. (Hint it’s the people).
Konnorwolf@reddit
I was not aware of that.
It's okay to get a second option on an issue as well. From another person with EXPERIENCE! Not AI.
I don't get it. Normally when you research online it is to look for PEOPLE that know what they are talking about.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
I suspect that a lot of people do research online to find confirmation of the answer they think they already know.
koei19@reddit
It's not even a fancy Google, it's a fancy auto-complete. It's absorbed huge amounts of text and learned to guess what words should come next based on patterns, which turns out to be enough to hold a conversation, write an essay, or answer a question.
The thing that scares me the most is that sites like Reddit are responsible for a huge amount of the data the models are trained on. ChatGPT is an average Redditor.
FinallyKat@reddit
That last srntence is one of the scsriest things I have ever read.
Enxer@reddit
Let me make it scarier. The average redditor is from the US and a fraction of that had a subpar education.
zerosevennine@reddit
I’m not a fan of what AI will do to our society, but I have to point out that your take is not accurate. While some large language models predict based on patterns, they’ve come much farther than that. We don’t have AGI yet, but some of the specialized models are amazing. Read up on some of the cutting edge stuff. We should all be scared.
Perfect_Caregiver_90@reddit
Well yeah, because we have both had it drilled into us and witnessed that computer output is only as good as the inputs. We also are no longer able to reasonably argue that the general public is smart enough to understand the limitations of the technology they are working with.
We're in the age of scams which leads to the age of low trust and overreaction. Hopefully we live long enough to reach the age of 'maybe we took things too far' relaxation and prosperity.
elMurpherino@reddit
why am I going to listen to some human telling me about animal health when the AI tells me it is a dog who has first hand experiences with what I am asking it. Because of AI my dog’s glaucoma was cured by feeding him tiny rocks every day.
-SandorClegane-@reddit
Capitalism makes everyone suspicious that everyone else is trying to sell them something they don't actually need.
Unfortunately, this attitude lends itself to people ignoring legitimate expertise.
Chet_Phoney@reddit
Many people have believed most shit they've read on the internet for a long time. Society is reaching record levels of stupidity. Intelligent folks who have the ability to think for themselves and have just a small amount of motivation will be fine. More people will continue to rely on the government and thats exactly what they want
Aronacus@reddit
I got into a heated debate with an Project Manager over how a piece of technology works. I've used this tech for the past 10 years, I hold multiple certifications in it.
I said how it worked, they cut me off, told me and everyone in the video call, I was wrong! ChatGPT said so!
I then logged into the console, and showed them they were wrong. While they kept saying "GPT says you have to go here! [Except that menu doesn't exist! ]
Konnorwolf@reddit
I feel anger on your behalf. We're kind of doomed when people think Chat GPT is the be all of everything.
Just because they have it doesn't mean it's true!
MiniTab@reddit
GenZ is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents:
https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/
Aronacus@reddit
The worst part of the schools know it's not working.
Cheezslap@reddit
Common core is genuinely amazing...if you're wired for it. My son is and the way he understands math on a fundamental level is awe-inspiring. The kid taught himself pre-calculus when the teacher couldn't hack it.
CantaloupeAsleep502@reddit
Common core math is infinitely better than the algorithmic shit we learned. I was a terrible math student in middle and high school, started taking math when I went back to school in my mid 20s, had a great teacher who changed my life, got a degree in math. Big part of my success in math was learning how to think like common core. Then it came out a couple years later.
temporary_bob@reddit
Common core is trying to teach people the why and how behind math. So fine, that's how my brain always worked. Unfortunately, for better or for worse, most people's brains just don't seem to work that way and it seems like trying to get them to grok the underlying reasoning behind math just baffles them and make them even more resistant to something they already weren't excited about 😕
Elegant-Ninja6384@reddit
That’s retail AI and it’s intentional.
Very easy to program it to be more brutally honest.
Although the rest of your points are valid.
bobrosserman@reddit
I feel like I’m literally watching everyone become dumber.
cheerful_cynic@reddit
There's a Steve King story, the end of the whole mess that keeps ringing more and more apt
S_A_R_K@reddit
I was thinking about this the other day. I went to visit my daughter across the country, in a state I used to live in. I went to the grocery store and got lost coming back to her house because I didn't use my gps. It was an eye opener for me to realize my ability to navigate has gone to absolute shit because I always use gps. I do not and will not use an LLM to look stuff up I'm fully capable of figuring out on my own but I have no doubt doing so is making people dumber
-SandorClegane-@reddit
I love the Dune series, but Frank Herbert knew about as much about computers as he knew about being a supportive parent.
SlapHappyDude@reddit
There are ways to trick it into being more honest. But it's definitely not the default mode.
SuchFalcon7223@reddit
It’s wild to me how many people keep defending AI while it destroys our planet, economy, and democracy. It makes a few tasks quicker but at whar cost?
Elegant-Ninja6384@reddit
You may be mistaking pragmatic reasoning with defense of the societal benefits. One can open eyes explain how materially impactful AI is while simultaneously acknowledging the potential destruction of much of the modern fabric of humanity.
Having said that…. Saying “AI bad” will help no one. We as a society need to recognize that change is inevitable and accept the inevitable realignment of values. Anything that can be automated is going to be less valuable. No way around it. And Ai will automate nearly everything in due time. If we don’t learn to value humans for their mere existence then we will be in for a rude awakening in next five or so years.
One-Earth9294@reddit
You have 2 choices right now: AI fails and the economy crashes into the dust, or AI succeeds and even though the economy continues to grow, you and I see nothing but 'no jobs and a declining purchasing power' until we're all just owned by companies who have no just totally replaced governments.
But the die has been cast and there's no going back to how it was before now.
No-Hospital559@reddit
Given the two choices, the only obvious choice is the first one. Let Ai crash and die, yeah it will fuck the economy but it will recover. The problem is we won't pick that one and will instead pick the second option where everything slowly gets shittier and shittier.
One-Earth9294@reddit
I really don't disagree. But it's gonna be a MIGHTY fall if it does. The amount of our economic growth right now built purely on the back of AI speculation is insane.
cheerful_cynic@reddit
But that's all just tulip-bulb future gambling with each other that as soon as technology gets more advanced than "an LLM that can trick a human into thinking it's actually computed results, instead of regurgitating a paragraph designed to look like what a typical answer to that query would look like" - as soon as we get access to that actual computational power, our business is gonna do so fucking well compared to yours
You know, like how Tesla "self driving" is actually people on an online call piloting over the Internet, how Meta's got Africans listening & watching the feed from their glasses so that they can interpret commands given to the glasses
Like the amazing technology keeping everyone alive in snowpiercer
DarkAngela12@reddit
Aw, dam, I need to finish Snowpiercer.....
whoisbill@reddit
The companies are not actually making any revenue and with how much they need to keep investing it will be a really long time before they ever do if they ever do. It's all just stock manipulation. Pump more money into AI, stock price goes up. That's all this is.
Elegant-Ninja6384@reddit
That’s just the stock market.l though. Sure investors will lose money.
Has nothing to do with the real world impact of AI which is profound.
whoisbill@reddit
I'm ts not though. When Microsoft puts billions into AI and then lays off employees to offset that cost. There is a huge problem. And more and more companies are doing that. The bubble will burst. And when it does it's gonna be bad.
Elegant-Ninja6384@reddit
No because that crash will be fleeting. And only monetary. The current tech is game changing today. For real job applications. Not theoretically. That wouldn’t go away just because of a capital market crash.
You can’t just not use it when it is there. That’s like trying to convince someone that they should communicate with carrier pigeons when we all know about email. Just not going to happen.
lost_horizons@reddit
I think it’s all gonna crash anyways, and I support it even if I’ll be among those in the bread line. It’s the only hope for a future with any kind of equity and democracy
One-Earth9294@reddit
The billionaires of today need to be humbled by hook or by crook. We cannot continue to let them dictate their wishes and desires on the rest of the world; government should exist to protect us from those predators and not the other way around.
Alarming_Length6100@reddit
This is my speculation. No one can predict what will really happen,
Right now companies are investing in building AI, because they fear being left behind. And they’re cutting costs elsewhere to do so.
AI isn’t actually at a point where it can replace anyone’s job. You need to be a subject matter expert to use it for small, and honestly questionable, productivity gains.
Eventually, most jobs will change to incorporate AI as a standard tool. and i think some jobs will morph into new hybrid roles.
However, even if AI brings crazy productivity gains, which I doubt, companies will start hiring again. Because more people using AI in their companies means faster delivery of work. And faster delivery means getting an edge over competition and that leads to profit.
k8womack@reddit
I agree, use it as a tool. I use it in some automated applications because my job already has me doing dual roles, before AI. I’m using it because my company won’t hire an extra headcount, not because they eliminated a job so AI could do it.
DarkAngela12@reddit
...is not hiring someone to do the job that needs done really that different than eliminating a job? It's still a [potential] job that was eliminated
bigmanbananas@reddit
AI will always be here, now in some form, but it's not replacing jobs. That's just companies making excuses for reducing staff.
And those LLMs will stop being so popular soon. When people start having to pay the actual cost, not the 5% of cost we are charged currently, it will become a different ball game. Suddenly managers have to pay for each token, all the hallucinations and errors. People, are in fact cheaper.
Elegant-Ninja6384@reddit
Popular for funny picture generation sure. That will decline as costs increase.
For its ability to level up work product quality and speed- no I disagree. Today it is massively valuable as a force multiplier. That will only grow from here.
Plus the inputs of AI (power/chips) can and will gain efficiency exponentially over time. Humans will not.
lankyleper@reddit
Yes, people are overblowing AI's impact. In the end it will remain a tool to be used. It's great at certain things, but most of those things don't translate to jobs being replaced.
I use it to help write Powershell scripts as part of my job and it does great if you know how to query well. It's helped me learn a lot with its long-winded explanation of everything. It definitely invents cmdlets, which I always call it out on. It will acknowledge the mistake, but I feel like if I ran the same query a year later, it would still suggest the same non-existent commands.
TLDR- AI isn't becoming Skynet.
yourinternetmobsux@reddit
And don’t forget some of us still have a few dollars in our 401K for the fantasy of retirement. Gotta make sure to crush that for us too
Mean_Translator5619@reddit
At my current company our leadership is pushing AI. Insisting we use it for productive work, and insisting that we convince our customers that they need. I think it’s an uphill fight to get people to completely abandon well-established design and UI patterns.
While I agree that it can be a great productivity accelerator, and yes I do use it as a helper for some of my work, I think we are a long way from it being able to completely replace jobs. Unfortunately it’s going to require some of these companies to learn that lesson the hard way.
StevieV61080@reddit
I'm going to do a post on this subreddit one of these days that is essentially a question for the opposite response to these types of posts, but I will bite a bit on this for now.
I'm a college professor who has been fighting against AI misuse since its introduction. I have issued plenty of zeroes, reported plenty of students to our conduct office, and have pushed harder than anyone on our campus to allow faculty to remove these cheaters from our programs. Some of my most anxious moments in the past few years is when I have had fights with my administration about the need to hold our students more accountable and back our faculty when we make our judgments--fear of lawsuits, be damned.
I teach management to mainly non-traditional students in a CC baccalaureate completion program. You know, the program that has for years been targeted for decision support science automation that AI is now most commonly associated? I have had assignments in my classes dating back to when I started teaching in 2007 about what AI and automation would do to our businesses, jobs, economies, and how we should respond. This is nothing new to me.
All that said, progress happens. Worker displacement has happened plenty of times before. Tools and technology make things obsolete. Society changes and adapts.
We don't have huge rural families dominating our populations any more. Tractors and combines took care of that. We don't use old tech for as much secondary research. The Internet took care of most of that. It would be odd for us to expect disruptions to just "stop" as that has never been the story of human history.
What we need right now is where our generation should be excelling: optimism. We are the generation of the "You will" Tom Selleck AT&T ads about the Information Superhighway that was sold to us in the early 90s. We were aspirational, hopeful, and excited about a better future. The years ahead looked like something about which we could/should be hopeful. I still feel that way today.
AI has been "sprung" ON us; not sold TO us. As a result, it feels more threatening. It IS disruptive, but so was the Internet. We navigated the WWW; we can navigate this, too.
I look forward to the pendulum that swings away from the present and its divisive gloominess and back to a shared joy in finding ways to express ourselves as never before. I look forward to fulfilling work that values unique expertise, knowledge, and skills rather than mundane monotony. I look forward to better healthcare, more institutional trust, stronger regulations, a renewed civic pride, and the potential for greater unity through our communities. While the path forward will have bumps, we are a generation, a people, that will do well to lead the way to a bright future.
SouthernBySituation@reddit
What if AI is deflationary and things that used to cost $30 now cost 3? What if all these jobs you think are going away actually didn't go anywhere and jobs boom? What if there is massive bottleneck in industries that this is going to free up and we see a wave of jobs created that you didn't even know there was demand for because it wasn't possible yesterday? Companies that couldn't exist yesterday and compete with big guys that can now. In turn those big companies have to try harder and offer more. You don't stand still in industry or your competitor will beat you. If you get AI and do layoffs them your competitor might get AI and keep people to do even more against you. So now you're back to hiring to compete with them.
We've never had a technology released that stopped us in thousands of years. Why would this be different? I say this as someone who has done massive automation projects and those extra hands just get moved to do even more and that savings disappears by next quarter because it's the new baseline and we have to do better again.
LLMprophet@reddit
Yup. When AI started kicking off I got promoted to IT Manager and now getting promoted to Director. Constant inflation is wrecking what would've been "the big bucks" and AI is possibly threatening the ability to even have a job.
Annoying.
MasonRy83@reddit
Our generation is like Final Destination but for finances.
trainwreckhappening@reddit
It's like the dot-com bubble. The people who will ultimately pay for this oversaturation is the billionaires investing in this hand over fist.
Actually they already are. None of them are turning a profit and they are already starting to show signs of trouble.
Mz_Ann_Throp@reddit
Well, my former workplace got rid of its ESL department largely due to AI. Mind you, these students could barely string together a few sentences, but that apparently wasn’t seen as an issue. Their plan is to assign work and allow AI to translate it for them. If they have to write, it’s the same thing: first they write in their native language, then they have AI translate it for them. And when it comes to speaking assignments, they are simply “excused.”
As a former ESL instructor, this has been deeply demoralizing. I’ve gone on other subreddits, and instructors in different fields have also expressed frustration with the negative effects of AI, particularly the outsourcing of thinking. Thankfully, there has been a push toward more pen-and-paper classwork because of this, but there is only so much students can accomplish in a classroom setting. I wish I knew a solution to this, but I have yet to come across one that seems truly viabl
thebeaverchair@reddit
Economically speaking, we are the Sideshow Bob generation.
https://i.redd.it/i4ci2fjopl1h1.gif
jonosvision@reddit
This has nothing to do with the posts topic, I just wanted to comment that my text message alert is a clip of Bob getting hit by a rake and the subsequent shudder he makes. It never failed to make me laugh when I get multiple text from my friends that has Bob just gets hit again and again and again. Best text alert ever.
Lancimus@reddit
Yeah, I remember when it was automation and factory jobs won't be around in a decade, yada, yada, yada. Yet here we are 30 years later and people are still slaving away for bs wages and longer and longer hours. People complained about not having jobs when in reality corpos don't want unemployed people they can't control so here we are. I have an odd feeling the same will happen with AI or I could be wrong and the government will be forced to step in and pass a UBI and universal health care, ha fat chance I know.
CalmTheAngryVoice@reddit
If the government is forced to do anything that helps most of us, there will be a lot of violence first...
Lancimus@reddit
I hate that you're right.
nobrunono@reddit
I'm so so tired
ninoidal@reddit
Nah, I think what will happen is that there might be some displacement on the fringes but most people will keep their jobs...they probably will have to produce more and get the same pay and work the same hours, but no material impact. The reason is CEOs may be greedy but they're not dumb. If everyone is let go, who will buy their products? So I wouldn't worry too much.
Ultimate-Flexionator@reddit
AI growing at this rate is a god mind creature in the future reaching back through time with retro causality to enter our existence. eldritch creature kind of shit. you know it's real, you've felt it - seen it in your dreams.
xParesh@reddit
I had the longest spell of my career out of work last and this year. I definitely will no be under estimating what might be to come.
I’m working on having ones years worth of spending saved as a financial cushion/war chest.
AnxiousSeason@reddit
Honestly it's Boomers and Gen X'ers at fault. They are SALIVATING over AI ...
They are just drooling over the idea of laying off workers to cut costs and replace us all with robots.
VinceAmonte@reddit
Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Dario from Anthropic, and many others are all millennials.
I blame Boomers and older Gen-X for most things, but this one isn’t solely on them.
Fickle_Wrangler_7439@reddit
Plenty of Millenials and Zoomers are pushing it too, don't kid yourself.
Mail_Order_Lutefisk@reddit
Robots that we own, but yes.
AnxiousSeason@reddit
Who owns?? I don't own shit.
KittySwipedFirst@reddit
Don't forget the calling us lazy and entitled because we have the nerve to tell them not to do that.
lost_horizons@reddit
Pulling up the ladder behind them
Fickle_Wrangler_7439@reddit
Ain't no one replacing me or my coworkers, standing right in front of people, using social and hands-on skills.
HVAC technicians, plumbers, parks services, social workers, medical, lots of jobs still out there.
Ambitious-Menu2298@reddit
You really need to think about the contractors building data centers without regard to how they’re going to power or cool them, regardless of the mess they make.I mean, they have families too. Have you even thought about that?
AssiduousLayabout@reddit
That's the story of every generation, though. Before the dot-com bust it was the recession of the early '90s, then the stagflation of the 80s, the oil embargo in the '70s, and so on.
AI, right now, is one of the few things pumping up the economy, especially as fuel costs continue to rise.
Nerdmitage@reddit
It's a bubble that is about to burst just like the dot com bubble. It's almost exactly the same inflated bullshit market model.
The thing about AI is it's all just a giant lie that they've sold to investors, who then try to force it into everything to make their investment worth while, only it doesn't work better than a human for most things and so it's going to burst soon.
The question is how soon before they gut a lot of neighborhoods and price people out of electricity for data center ghost towns? I'm hoping it's soon because they want to put one of those near me and I don't want to run a bike through a windmill to run a blender because my electricity bill is $1500 a month.
Can't burst soon enough in my opinion and I hope they all take a HUGE bath in their hubris to replace humanity with a chatbot that is increasingly telling people to off themselves or bet their life savings on whether Logan Paul audibly farts during his next fight. I hope they have to sell off their giant underground bunkers and all cry to jail Sam Altman for shilling this thing to every billionaire too stupid to see it's fake, even when he knew full well it was going to do more harm than good.
I can't wait to watch it all burn down and if there's anything I'm proud of the younger generation for its standing up to it and if they couldn't do that, learning to game it so it ends up being a bad investment. I LOVE that they robbed every self checkout around and now stores are getting rid of them and hiring cashier's back. I love that they are taking the malware that AI had made all of our lives harder with security wise and are using it to wipe the records of people's mortgages and medical bills. You gotta fight fire with fire and then roast weinnies when it blows up in their face.
like_shae_buttah@reddit
Dawg wait until this generation of young people who basically ChatGPT their way through school graduates.
Yellow_Curry@reddit
Ahh - nah this is just a normal recession but easier to say "AI" while companies fire people. Also companies are spending on AI services and software thinking it will replace people. Some jobs it might, but its a massively complex fragile system that isn't close to replacing anyone. I mean i wouldn't replace an intern with AI at this point.
So yea, normal recession from the orange nutjob in office.
Rurumo666@reddit
And we're all going to be too old and arthritic for sex work, I honestly don't know what will become of us.
Gonna_do_this_again@reddit
Oh I think it's going to be way worse than that.
_____AMOK_____@reddit
My prediction is we have 5-10 years max of actual work left. It’ll be dystopian after that
Sea_Ganache620@reddit
In the past 3 weeks, search engines have given me blatantly false information two times .It was worded so convincingly, with photos, that someone who didn’t know would believe it.
Elegant-Elderberry37@reddit
This is sad but true
Konnorwolf@reddit
AI will end up talking over jobs, anything creative which normally is a very human thing, art, writing, movies etc.. Even the most mundane thing online will be fake etc... People are faking court and HOA meetings. Nothing really positive is coming from it yet.
mallanson22@reddit
Us to the next generations?
Anxious-Cupcake-84@reddit
Work is all about AI and I can't stand it. They push it so hard. At a meeting they were like who cares if it sounds like AI even if that's not how you sound. I told a coworker that it's going to make dumb people seem smart when they're not I'm waiting it to tumble everything down. They push it's so good but make sure you triple check what it returns. Ain't no one going to do that.
dominator5k@reddit
This is a story as old as time (not actual ai obviously). The shit we have been dealing with is not new. All generations went through constant hardships. They came out ok. We will come out ok.
Sea-Effort-5880@reddit
I believe ai is way behind where it needs to be. The pressure to get it done within a certain deadline is going to leave many issues overseen. Still needs human interaction to operate and oversee malfunctions and errors. That and the cost to keep them going, power isn't cheap and neither is the components. Companies are putting too much trust into it and it will bite them in the ass. All the while the workforce is becoming more and more entitled. Laws and regulations are getting out of hand, one law contradicts another. I have hope though. There's opportunities out there, places and things that got snuffed out during the rise of tech and people are wanting it back. People born in this current century that just want something more basic. Easy living with less stress. Ai lacks what humans have. Creativity and emotion. Its programs set to measure out pre determined calculations, navigate thru ideas that have already been manifested.
rollem@reddit
Either AI will be as amazing as its biggest proponents think it will be and there’ll be mass unemployment, or it will fail to live up to its hype and there will be a massive bubble burst that is far larger than the dot com bubble. Either way we’re screwed.
wiserTyou@reddit
Some maybe. I doubt it will have a disastrous impact other than to weed out middle management that doesn't do much.
That is, until they built it bodies, but then we're in the end game terminator style.
sloppypickles@reddit
Mass economic downturn plus kids who are just as dependent on us as we were our parents, cept we won't be nearly as far ahead. Before we turn social security age they will either delay the years of eligibility if not take it away entirely. We'll probably also get to see the weather begin to change dramatically if we live past 70.
Eric848448@reddit
I’ve seen it called the bot-com bubble.
StillhasaWiiU@reddit
I got to enjoy the impact of the early internet bubble pop before 9/11. And then the oil price crash of 2015.