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Reprinted with permission from Creators.
Industrial automatons have been on the march for years, devouring the middle-class job opportunities of factory workers. But this time is different.
If you think your familys future is safe because you dont rely on factory work, think again. Rapid advances in AI have already turned yesterdays science fiction into todays brave new creative destruction the constant churn of economic and cultural innovations that destroy existing ways of doing things. A network of inventors and investors, hundreds of university engineering and math departments, thousands of government-funded research projects, countless freelance innovators and the entire corporate establishment are re-inventing practically every workplace by displacing humans with more efficient AI robots.
This mass-scale deployment of robots has already ushered in a whole new world of work. Its a CEOs capitalist paradise, where the workforce doesnt call in sick or take vacations, cant file lawsuits, doesnt organize unions and is cheap.
As a result, robots are rapidly climbing the pay ladder into white-collar and professional positions that millions of college-educated, middle-class employees have wrongly considered safe, including:
http://www.nationalmemo.com/think-job-safe-robot-invasion/
And has a aircraft inspector this is what is happening:
Johnny2X2X
(18,742 posts)Software engineers are next up, we already have sw that can write sw, and sw that can look at code at write requirements and test cases for it.
People are missing the fact that AIs will also be more creative than humans in the very near future. High skilled engineering jobs could go sooner than trade jobs.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)that the wing of the 787 and the fuselage is made by a robot and the autoclave.
And yes I have seen what is happening in that industry while I was in the Engineering Department, where it use to be thousands making a plane, there just isn't anymore. I worked at a plane factory where there were over 7,000 of us back in 1984 just in one final Assembly department, now its down to 2,000
They now have a robot that drills, installs, bucks the rivet on the fuselage area and other components. And if humans think that they can go in a job to service the robots, nope, they have a robot servicing and repairing the robot
People had better wake up and fast, just think of the popular "Shake Shack"..............people will want to go and experience the plan to reinforce the planning and operation of this market plan, and not realize, it could be them next...........amazing
Johnny2X2X
(18,742 posts)Mission Control Systems.
People don't fully get it yet. They think of things in 1 to 1 terms still. As in an AI will replace an engineer. That's not the case, what will happen is a single AI will replace several teams of engineers. And eventually a single AI could run a whole industry. AIs will be able to have thousands of interactions or conversation with thousands of different humans at once and process all of the info.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)better
(884 posts)Yavin4
(35,354 posts)better
(884 posts)Best programming groupie pun I could come up with on short notice!
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)The only question is when do our lords and masters finally figure this out?
DavidDvorkin
(19,404 posts)dembotoz
(16,737 posts)hitler had a final solution
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)Make no mistake, when it comes to power and money, the rich and powerful are always well ahead of the power curve. They have known for some time that they no longer need a huge pool of American worker bees. The first step was to outsource the work to cheap overseas labor.
Then next step will be to utilize a robotic work force as much as possible. And only provide education, health care, income to the extent that they have a small labor force because some jobs cannot be outsourced and have enough of the population who can afford the goods and services they sell. At some point they will not even need this, they will have control of most of the planet's wealth.
So we see the policies which in effect cull the population and make it susceptible to propaganda: inadequate or nonexistent access to healthcare, refusal to deal with the opioid epidemic, or effect of climate change, unaffordable education, etc.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)People with no jobs have no money to buy products/services.
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)They will no longer need to sell goods or services.
Once a tiny minority have control of 99% of the world's wealth, mission accomplished.
Game over.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)except to a handful of other oligarchs. Nothing would be worth anything if there were very few takers.
I don't see how this plan would work.
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)The problem is that most of us are hard working law-abiding citizens.
We cannot wrap our heads around the machinations of greedy, corrupt oligarchs.
For example, there is a well-known oligarch who is purported to be worth $200 billion, which makes him the richest person in the world, in fact the richest person in the history of the world. His wealth is kept secret to a large extent. But it is believed his money is in property, secret Swiss bank accounts and other overseas accounts, and some stocks and funds.
And if you think about it, vast wealth concentrated in the hands of a few occurred long before the existence of corporations and stock holdings. And will exist when corporations no longer exist.
sarisataka
(18,210 posts)be a robot repair technician
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)and be the single biggest job creator the world has ever seen... surpassing the industrial revolution and the silicon chip for job creation.
JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)Companies would not move towards automation if it costs them money. AI is just another level of automation to replace creative/analytic jobs.
ANY capitalist economy, as a whole drives to reduce costs (wages paid out) while increasing profit. The jobs servicing AI and automation will always be cheaper (pay out less overall wages) than the jobs the automation is replacing. From the 1500-1800s, America had artificially low wages (read: sleave labor). America thrived, but that advantadge was lost and nations with child and impoverished labor then began to catch up and thrive. During the industrial revolution, America mechanized its labor force and could produce goods at a greater rate and cheaper per-unit cost versus the rest of the manual-labor world production. Again, America Thrived until technologies spread and cheap human labor supporting the machines forced offshoring of production. During the computerized revolution in the 80s our companies supplying information and logistical prowess thrived. That too has been migrating overseas to utilize cheap human operators... humans are still needed to think and input information. The humans are needed to understand the humans being targeted for marketing. Soon, AI will be able to interpret uniquely human data and make decisions to predict upcoming markets.
Every step makes human decision making and manual labor less and less relevant. Given history, our only hope as Americans is that the automation/AI revolution lets America once again have the cheapest product delivery and we thrive as a nation. Eventually though, humans are going to be come altogether obsolete except for the most menial maintenance tasks. Our only hope is that the corporate overlords see it fit to provide the proletariat with a basic living income and minimum wage for just existing.
I want to see a corporation with an AI CEO, all AIs on the Board of Directors, and AI management chain (you know, the jobs that require no actual human skills - just ruthless thinking) take the stock market by storm. Maybe AIs driving cars in NASCAR and Forumla One with utter efficiency. AIs managing professional sports teams and making all of the game decisions for the players. It's the only way the government and rest of Wall Street will take notice to the problem.