AI and jobs
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I've been meaning to create a blog to register my thoughts on current advances in AI. Just yesterday I attended the very first day of the AIFrontiers conference in San Jose. The last session of the day was a talk by Kai-fu Lee and what he said terrified me.
According to his analysis, China will soon (by 2023) overtake US as the world leader in AI. Well, this didn't come as a surprise to me. But what triggered the panic button in me is the number of jobs AI will kill in the next 5-10 years.
Screenshots from his talk are pasted below:
Car and truck drivers, customer support teams, personnel interpreting radiology results, personnel in tele-sales, security guards, personnel in courier delivery jobs - basically every job that a machine can arguably do better than a human - will be gone!
Well, my question is if Kai-Fu Lee can figure this out, shouldn't the governments of countries where a considerable fraction of the economy currently hold the left lower quadrant jobs do something about this? Countries first hit by a job crisis would be China and USA - the early AI adopters.
So what can the government do? Well for starters they have to acknowledge the changing landscape in the job market. Yesterday's talk was the first that I've heard where someone had the guts to say that 'AI is going to replace jobs'. Very thought provoking and deserves some noise.
I've been meaning to create a blog to register my thoughts on current advances in AI. Just yesterday I attended the very first day of the AIFrontiers conference in San Jose. The last session of the day was a talk by Kai-fu Lee and what he said terrified me.
According to his analysis, China will soon (by 2023) overtake US as the world leader in AI. Well, this didn't come as a surprise to me. But what triggered the panic button in me is the number of jobs AI will kill in the next 5-10 years.
Screenshots from his talk are pasted below:
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| Jobs in the left lower quadrant will be replaced by AI and will become non existent in the next 5-10 years. Jobs in the the left upper quadrant are currently being 'underpaid'/ 'not considered respectable' Jobs in the two right quadrants are safe (well, for now). |
Car and truck drivers, customer support teams, personnel interpreting radiology results, personnel in tele-sales, security guards, personnel in courier delivery jobs - basically every job that a machine can arguably do better than a human - will be gone!
Well, my question is if Kai-Fu Lee can figure this out, shouldn't the governments of countries where a considerable fraction of the economy currently hold the left lower quadrant jobs do something about this? Countries first hit by a job crisis would be China and USA - the early AI adopters.
So what can the government do? Well for starters they have to acknowledge the changing landscape in the job market. Yesterday's talk was the first that I've heard where someone had the guts to say that 'AI is going to replace jobs'. Very thought provoking and deserves some noise.
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