A job is a bundle of tasks. Many of these tasks can now be automated, and increasingly more and more will be automated. But a job itself is never truely automated. Periods of mass unemployment have always been anomalies. COVID, Great Depression, Great Recession, the demise of the “handloom weavers”. They have always been events that temporarily made job searching difficult. But a job is fundamentally more than what AI will ever be able to do. A job is a position, a duty, a role, a function. To say AI will automate away jobs is to say that it will take away the function humans have in the world. That innate function is to support one another. To cooperate to get needs and wants met for each other. Those who believe this need therapy. To believe that AI will take duty, position, function, and role away from a human is to believe that another can take your dignity. You matter. You, my human counterpart, are reading this. You are more that what a machine will ever be capable of producing so long as the collective deems this so. And given how popular AI is polling right now, this will be so for a long, long while. submitted by /u/nomadicsamiam
Originally posted by u/nomadicsamiam on r/ArtificialInteligence