Nothing new that has not happened before in the history of mankind. Have you heard of computers? In the past, the word computer referred to a person whose job was to perform mathematical operations.they were replaced by electrónic computers They used to take up entire rooms full of accountants in companies. they were replaced by accounting applications. There used to be rooms full of draftsmen, now there are only a few engineers/architects with CAD/CAM programs, and so we could go on backwards in history.

Sht happens! You either adapt with the times, or get left behind! I don’t think AI is taking over humanity. But, I do believe, it will take over industries! But, that happens every time we hit a new era in time. Look at back when we had telephone operators. They became obsolete, because everyone got cellphones. Same sht, different time.

If you work in print, or especially information, you need to find another job. Luckily, only humans can do my job for now. Art, Print, etc. are screwed. Paralegals will be no more. I can think of many more examples. (if you're wondering, I'm a toolmaker) Skilled trades will flourish, middle managers will not. Thank god. You've been screwing trades as hard as you can for years, enjoy. Try to get AI to rewire your cities like a lineman does after a disaster. Same for millwrights. Same for firefighters. Anything that poses too many variables will be safe, others, not.

Let's see AI write the sort of claptrap we see on Fox or Alex Jones... No, wait...

If this individual is any good at their job, they will soon be in the "cat birds seat" because there are going to be hiccups. The station will want them back desperately because it will fail and they will need to circle the wagons and go back to the norm until the bugs are ironed out. Microsoft had/has major issues rolling out AI in conjunction with their OS that was engineered to work with AI. You don't need a crystal ball to see that there's gonna be problems ahead and the OP is going to be in a very good position. It might be temporary, but it will buy some time.

I hope AI crashes and burns in certain fields, especially creative, and human beings are once more employed in them. I do not want a f*****g algorithm dictating creative content. Writing scripts, “creating” works of “art”, composing music. No. I want human beings to be the creatives, not a sequence of strict and FINITE mathematical instructions—-the good AND bad of which solely depends on the person who put the string of numbers together—-that will quickly run out and start endless repeating loops before we finally unplug them and turn back to the endless thinking out of the box and NOT following instructions of HUMANS that has given us so much beauty and wonderment since forever. I am not against AI entirely, I think it can be used in a load of areas. I just want it to be kept TF OUT of creative endeavors, as well as anything that requires human judgement calls. Such as presenting the news.

I don't get it. This person decries what the recent version of AI has done, but neglects that many copyeditors aren't needed anymore thanks to spellcheck, and printers aren't needed thanks to word processing programs, and messengers aren't needed thanks to email, and... This happens CONSTANTLY. It's nothing new at all.

Seems like it is setting up for an eventual revolution to wrest the means of production from the bourgeoisie and their AI and put it into the hands of the workers.

A small light at the end of the tunnel, maybe: Recently a major newspaper in my country fired a huge portion of their staff because of that exactly - to be replaced by AI. It took few months but now they're scrambling to somehow get most of those people back. Turns out the promises of AI didn't give them results they expected. While on paper (pun not intended) everything looked fantastic, reality proved that AI couldn't achieve quality as good as real humans delivered, and made mistakes too big or too laborious to fix. So, maybe there's hope.

Know the history of the rust belt? That’s when American manufacturing moved off-shore and tens of thousands of middle class jobs were lost hollowing out cities like Detroit and Milwaukee. AI is repeating the process in another employment sector. Tech bros are not our friends—and neither is private equity.

this worries me since my husband is in the news industry. hes an editor and writer but how long until ai takes over that too

I do worry about this. I recently took a class in generative AI and was told that I won't lose my job to AI, but I will lose it to someone who knows how to use it if I don't learn. But I'm not so sure. I'm an HR Manager. As long as there are people, I will still have a job. But if the workforce shrinks, then my role diminishes, along with my paycheck. And what happens if the company completely automates?

To the people saying this will ruin us, I invite you all to look up the Luddites.

Current AI is trash. Maybe the ones massive financial institututions use (and can afford) are ok for specifics but the ones mentioned here are not very good and fed on bad data. They should be human error checked and is one person enough for that. Two pairs of eyes are normally much better. Several websites made huge mistakes letting AI write articles and scrapped them. AI will also feed on these AI articles so quality is going through the floor and humour, local knowledge absent.

Must be Sinclair