AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy — so long as our education system prepares today’s students for a future where all careers require increased understanding of how technology works and how to create/innovate in a digital world.https://singularityhub.com/2019/01/01/ai-will-create-millions-more-jobs-than-it-will-destroy-heres-how/ …
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For example, invention of industrial agriculture put most farmers out of work. 50% of Americans were farmers, now 5%. New jobs in tractor-design didn’t replace the automated farm work. But other higher-tech jobs did.
Throughout centuries, tech has automated one form of work while creating a new form. If you zoom out, employment has always bounced back and lifestyles improved. The real Q is zooming in on the years/decades of transition and how to educate the workforce for needs of tomorrow.
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Done right, we educate today’s students for the needs of the mid-century, and the transition is smooth. (Done wrong, transitions like this can have depressions or revolutions or wars in between)
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I'll agree on the history but wonder if we might be at a different place. With marginal costs on so many things going down and with things like UBI being at least discussed and theorized about we might be going somewhere new.
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In the past that has been mostly true, but that's not the authors example. He uses a previously debunked example of ATMs creating more teller jobs. It's not true. The idea that AI will create more CS jobs is equally unlikely. More low paying service jobs is more likely.
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I’d love to read more about this alleged debunking. I have no prior familiarity with the ATM example. Regardless, I believe new tech will do both: increase high-paying digital/CS-related jobs *and* free up labor for lower-paying services jobs.
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