92 Million Jobs Gone: Who Will AI Erase First?

I’d have to guess a lot of redundant middle management type jobs where they delegate work out to people. Same to those who are delegated to, probably anyone who’s job primarily revolves around building out spreadsheet off daily generated data. Probably tech support in a major way as well

Just in time to raid my 401k great

Whose ass did they pull these numbers from?

Hopefully Realtors. Worthless profession IMHO

It’s not necessarily that AI will remove all the jobs, but most will be outsourced and some will be replaced by AI. 

Ha, my director level job in tech was”replaced by AI” last year!

It’s way worse than that.

Sofware engineers are getting slaughtered atm; look at all the big tech companies laying off devs and shuttering graduate programs. I’m a senior sofware engineer and I do NOT want to be on the market right now…. not long ago we were one of the most in demand roles in an industry screaming for talent. Now the market is flodded and very poor for applicants, both junior and senior.

Tech support is gone; it was all outsourced a decade back to india and such, but now AI chatbots are replacing them too. Pretty much every company is doing this.

The arts and entertainment too; hollywood is simultaneously shitting its pants and licking its lips at the thought of infinite AI generated content without the need to pay actors, residuals, production… meanwhile the need to streamline and cut back is ever growing, as audiences shrink and cinemas go bankrupt from lack of interest. Hell Disney can’t even lure people in with the latest Marvel movies anymore. Artists are being laid off as AI generated content can replace them, Advertising and new media too; writers, reviewers…. many of those jobs are just gone, and they’re not coming back.

This isn’t just entry level stuff either; seasoned experienced veterands of many industries are being laid off for being too experienced and expensive, replaced instead by cheaper offshore labor or AI tools wherever possible. Architects, paralegals, researchers….. its happening across all industries and advancing QUICKLY. And as time goes on, more and more senior level work will be delegated away from humans and towards AI.

And it’s not just white collar jobs; Robotics is steadily improving too; what do you think happens to the construction, services, retail and hospatality industries when they can take on a team of cheap, reliable workers that don’t need rest and don’t have any associated needs for pay, benefits, or training? What do you think happens to freight and shipping when fully autonomous driving is cracked? Given how powerful these LLMs are and the rate they continue to improve….

Governments need to act swiftly and decisively. This is not like when Cars replaced Horses back in the turn of the 20th century; this is a total paradigm shift for humanity. It’s already ugly out there with rapidly growing mass unemployment. There needs to be taxing and legislation put in place to prevent companies from abandoning their human workforce, or they’ll end of making all of humanity redundant and collapse society.

I asked co-pilot today to help me find the differences in two nearly identical and identically formatted pdfs. It got nearly everything wrong, repeatedly. Not just flagging info that was on both docs, but also straight up making up shit that wasn’t on either.

So you’ll forgive me if I don’t think this technology is about to replace the whole us economy. 

… but 170M jobs created because of AI, according to this forecasts (which I don’t trust a bit, but that’s a different story…)

But in the title, they only put the -90M.

Dust bowl 2.0

So the article is saying the jobs likely to be affected include housekeepers and caretakers? Are they predicting full robot automation for that because I don’t think a computer program will be able to do the laundry or change a diaper.

We’ve had Management Information Systems that could make better business decisions than CEOs & executives since the late 1980s. And yet they always act like they are the only irreplaceable group in the entire workforce. This is regardless of how many companies they run into the ground or how they have hollowed out our country’s industrial base.

AI couldn’t replace a bad case of genital herpes right now

The report they cite doesn’t actually say anything to close to “AI will replace 92 million jobs” it says, a variety of factors, including technology, demographic shifts, climate change, and geopolitical realignment will cycle 92 million jobs out of the economy and cycle 170 million jobs into the economy.

Of course, that doesn’t get clicks like “AI will take our jobs.”

People forget history but it was mass unemployment and wealth distribution which was the primary cause of the French Revolution. It did not turn out well for those in charge back then. I would be very worried about history repeating itself.

Mods this is not me advocating violence or telling people to violently rebel. I stated history and what happened in the past, that’s it.

As long as needy, dumb people that refuse to read anything exist, we’ll be fine.

So it’s from a global forum, but the numbers are just American?

Who TF cares.

They deserve every ounce of pain they get, until they decide democracy is a good idea again.

Managers are the prime target for replacement for AI.

High cost, next to zero output, easily replaced by AI, and is already beginning note taking, time management and task management systems, break down tasks for humans to enact, run meetings and interact with humans.

Sure a good manager is worth 20 bad ones.

But there’s like 1000s of shitty managers for every good one.

So in the end AI doesn’t have to be the best or even good, just not shit like every manager is already, also AI won’t sexually harass people or hire and promote based on favouritism, and management is significantly overpaid.

What a great job to cut and save so much money for companies.

Computer Science jobs. Who needs humans when AI can write the code flawlessly?

When the bubble bursts it will be out of missed projections or anger.

TL;DR: ok hey – the author needs to slow down there, kinda missing the forest for the trees, and wow not even talking about trees now ok sure

Yes, the employment landscape is changing. But this article is all over the place and scatterbrained after the clickbait headline; which, having worked with Ph.Ds in the semiconductor industry, at least leads me to believe *this article* wasn’t AI. It legitimately reads like the emails I used to suffer. First, AI and automation can be two wildly different things; but she’s stating that “caretakers, cleaners and housekeepers” will be affected(?) I’d love to see how ChatGPT will be able to physically clean a property. Secondly, I do wholeheartedly agree early facial recognition AI will likely be programmed to only look for “Caucasian Male A” or “Caucasian Male B”. Finally, as stated above, the contexts of AI and physical automation can be very different. The UCLA study linked in the Forbes article is about *automation,* and references a latinodatahub dot org study, which in turn states “We do not consider recent technological advances such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), as they are still in early development and their impacts on the workforce have not been widely observed.^(19)” and the footnote 19 is: “For a preliminary comparison of the workers vulnerable to generative AI, see Appendix Figure 1 in Galdámezet al., *On the Frontlines: Automation Risks for Latino Workers in California*.” Perhaps the headline should have included the term Automation as well.

This article makes no sense why are house cleaners at risk?

Forbes product managers. Not gonna bother wading through the ads, this is ridiculous.

Everyone who sits infront of a PC 80% of the time,will be jobless first.