Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Economist David Autor believes AI won't ki-l jobs and could instead create a "Mad Max" scenario. It could make your skills less valuable and your paycheck smaller — a world where jobs still exist, but the skills that once generated wages become cheap and commoditized.

"The threat that rapid automation poses — to the degree it poses as a threat — is not running out of work, but making the valuable skills that people have highly abundant so they're no longer valuable," he said.

He pointed to roles like touch typists, factory technicians, and even taxi drivers as examples — all skilled, well-paying jobs that technology has downgraded or, in some cases, replaced.

This doesn't mean people will be unemployed, he added. Instead, many are likely to shift into lower-paid service jobs — in food service, cleaning, security — that require little training and offer minimal pay.

@b3 I got curious enough to Google the Hertz thing (“hertz ai scanner”) and holy cr-p!

@b0

Correct.
And AI's not just an economic trainwreck, it's a FREEDOM CRUSHING trainwreck, too.

Look at what's happening now with Hertz.
You rent a car from them now, and it gets put through an AI scanner, so when you return it, even if it has the slightest little 1/4" mar on its surface, you are assessed outrageous fees for "damage," when before AI, you'd be paying nothing, since common sense allows for normal wear and tear on the vehicle. No more!

This will be happening with decision-making in healthcare, where AI tallies things up, and determines if you're a candidate for treatment or not. AI will decide how much $ you can spend and on what, once the Central Bank Digital Currency is implemented. AI will allot you a certain amount of miles you can drive, and what size radius you are allowed to travel from your home. Any violation will result in heavy fees and more erosion of freedom/personal ability to choose what's best for one's own life.

It's all a big freakin' clampdown about to happen, and people will not realize this until it's too late.

Don't get the neuralink, don't get chipped, don't do "wearables" such as Fitbit and other trackers of health or location data, don't get jibbyjabbed, don't auto-pay, use cash, grow your own food, eat clean, filter your water, get some sun, connect with God, be as low-tech, and manual, and autonomous as you can be, during this weirdass 4th Turning.

RESIST the BORG!

I don't think it can be overemphasized how fast and disruptive this is going to be.

Just look at the explosion in datacenters. Companies are all-in on AI displacement.

The providers keep trying to talk about how AI will assist the workforce, but their customers only want to talk about how fast they can replace the sheeple.

Add in the humanoid robots and some kind of economic train wreck seems inevitable.

@a5

Newsflash: all of us are already doing that, just by posting here.

It's kinda gross, when you really think about it.
Anything we look at, post about, work on, or listen to is being churned through AI.

Ew.

@a5 They came in peace, then they came for your job.

How would you like to be one of those humanoids that are unwillingly helping to train those AI agents that will eventually replace them?

Sound familiar?