AI will take your job. Get over it

From the article

The question isn’t whether AI will change the workforce. The question is: Will you be ready? Technology has always transformed work and society. Artificial intelligence is just accelerating the pace. Imagine being a farm or factory worker in the 1850, watching new machines emerge that threatened to take your job. The fear was intense, as was the societal backlash. People rioted against automation, desperate to halt progress. But history marched forward. Machines did replace much of the grinding labor in factories and farms, yet humanity didn’t crumble, it advanced. As society adapted over the following decades, life expectancy increased, work became safer, people worked fewer hours, and the global standard of living skyrocketed.

We’ve seen this cycle before. AI is just the next wave. Instead of destroying jobs, it is redefining what valuable work looks like. The workforce has adapted before, and it will adapt again. The winners will be those who embrace this shift fastest.

# AI is following a familiar playbook

As an economic anthropologist who has studied socioeconomic transitions, I see troubling historical patterns reemerging. In the 1990s, Russia experienced a dramatic shift from communism to capitalism. Because society resisted the change, millions of people who had relied on government jobs and the security of the socialist system were suddenly lost in a rapidly changing economy. Life expectancy plummeted, many turned to drugs, protested, or checked out of the workforce. Nostalgia for the past grew, and by the end of the decade, Russia elected an authoritarian leader who promised to reverse capitalist policies and systems. Now, Russia is facing the consequence of this resistance to progress, and it will take several generations to undo the harm of this social backlash to change.

The industrial revolution of the 1800s followed a similar trajectory. Economic upheaval and displacement led to social unrest, and many countries responded with fascist and communist authoritarian regimes. It took two world wars and a massive economic reset to move forward. But then, after we embraced change, we became much better off.

The lesson? If we don’t adapt fast enough to today’s AI-driven economy, we risk repeating the mistakes of history. This time, however, we have the opportunity to avoid suffering by proactively embracing change.

The threat of AI isn’t taking jobs but making decisions.

AI is crap and the companies that tie their future to it will go down in flames. It’s a solution that no one asked for to a problem that doesn’t exist. It has yet to turn a profit of any kind and devours energy in a reckless way in the face of a climate emergency. It’s a scam.

by Tatyana Mamut, founder and CEO of Wayfound, an AI company.

Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, Tatyana?

That article is nonsensical. It describes massive social problems, then suggests individual solutions that clearly can’t work at scale. They don’t need enough people to do the remaining jobs, and they know it, nor is everyone qualified for such jobs.

I know it is news to billionaires, but the rest of us value food, shelter, transportation, access to drinking water, entertainment, etc, and get pretty upset when we think those things are going to be taken away at scale.