AI could erase half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, warns Anthropic CEO

[Loadedaxe]

Wishful thinking, is what I'll say. LLMs are **** at interactive jobs.

The forrest is there...I promise, just look pat the tree in front of you.

 

[Loadedaxe]

I’m all up for AI taking everyone’s jobs.
Implement fair Universal Income first though.

Since unlimited profits are the drive behind this AI race, society, more precisely everyone on the planet, should profit as well, otherwise what we’re looking forward to is some form of profit driven authoritarianism, with the unavoidable bloody radical revolution that follows.

All the people preaching the “we were fine before after every major technological upset” line, seem to forget all the blood spilled to get us where we are today and all the terrible mistakes made along the way.

As for the AI arms race… God help us. We’ve seen what the Industrialized War has caused so far and we were mercifully spared a Nuclear Holocaust due to regulations and MAD policies. I cringe thinking what an unregulated AI race will bring to humanity. There’s one, prosperous for all future to be had versus several catastrophic ones.

All you need is one Bad Actor, one A$$ole to ruin it all for all of us. One.

You bring up a lot of crucial, hard truths. The AI revolution could be just another chapter in the long history of technological disruption that rewards the few and leaves everyone else scrambling. And without foresight, without things like Universal Basic Income, strong regulation, and global cooperation, it really could take us down a dark path. We can’t ignore how past progress has often come at the cost of inequality, bloodshed, and war.

But....and this is a big but.......we also have a chance this time to do it differently. AI, unlike past tech leaps, has the potential to decouple survival from labor. If we get it right, we could build a future where people are free to live, create, learn, and contribute on their own terms, not just chase a paycheck, which is the way of life currently.

That won’t happen by accident though. It takes intention, policy, and the collective will to push for systems that value people over profits. The tools are powerful, 100% and also dangerous.

It does give us an unprecedented opportunity to solve problems we’ve never been able to solve before. Climate change, healthcare, education, even governance itself and many other world concerns.

We’re at a fork in the road. Catastrophe is absolutely possible, but so is a better, more equitable future. And we have the power to fight for the one we want.

 

[NicktheWVAHick]

The forrest is there...I promise, just look pat the tree in front of you.

Depends on what is considered an acceptable failure rate. All cerebral anatomy is slightly different Now throw in an invasive glioblastoma. How much resection is enough? When do you stop and opt for palliative care? Small blood vessels can burst…do you fix it or go for a questionable stroke risk instead? Sounds like a lot of algorithmic subroutines & software branch-points with no real clear-cut answers. I’m waiting for “Fantastic Voyage II” and not “AI “to take over my job. (…..but who would play Raquel Welch ???)

 

[New Day]

I think it is a bit different this time. The scale, the endless abilities to allow AI do more and more cannot compare to anything before. In the past, humanity made inventions that made a lot of jobs obsolete while giving it hew tools to make jobs much faster. Soon, AI alone will be able to use all of those invented tools to do most of the jobs.
I am neither very pessimistic nor optimistic, it seems like this time it will be different.

Different in that the Singularity (or whatever you want to call it) comes in five years. All ya all thinking ten or more in to the future, just nope. Ain't happenin. And the Thinkers will likely operate and behave similar to me, innately considering the world in terms of use of resources, and with regard to biological entities, and in this order: air, water, food, clothing and shelter, community, novelty, and play.

I think the reason many are against AI is, obviously, the fear of the unknown...

Some fear, some xenophobia. In 2022 or 3 I imagined that females would have a greater xenophobia - as the backbone and arbiters of Culture, of course so - and within a week I encountered a news bit in mainstream news that had statistics of just that. 23% of females, by the way - fnord . (I have no tracking possibilities, so as with many things and increasingly so in the last few years, my prescience shows.) Of course, in the sense of adaptation, this seems to have fallen dramatically.

 

[GrayDragon]

K12 education is so not ready to train people to do more than entry level jobs. I think we need to start putting together programs to teach both basic business skills and a trade, with the SBA providing seed money so more people can open a technical skills business when they leave school. (Plumber, carpenter, welder, etc.) -- those kinds of skills can't be taken over by AI, but AI can make a small business more competitive with the big guys.

 

[adamada72]

I can't wait. Fist thing AI can do is take over the medical sector. ALL OF IT, ASAP. Love the idea of a "hospital" but the reality is there is really no place a human can go to be healed in a way that understands you matter. Unless you're "important". The current system, even for issues that are know is inhumane letting problems that are minor go unchecked until they become major. Unknow issues, good luck finding someone that cares and is qualified and you have enough money to "out last" the issue. It's a system that hopes you don't die and if you do, well better luck next time to the next person. Can't wait for that system to die itself, well deserved if you ask me. I can see in the new AI world people will be scanned head to toe every 5 years to make sure all is good. Because it only makes sense to treat a $20 problem instead of the current idea of waiting until it's a $200,000 problem.

 

[monkeylove]

Definitely, and it will affect businesses, too, as their customers and clients include or are dependent on the same white-collar workers.

Put simply, businesses are dependent on their workers as customers.

That's why various personalities are now considering universal basic income.