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That’s not how this works. We only like posts like this when dog pictures are included.
I’ll drop you a like. Then copy and paste your lengthy message in the appropriate bowl and thread.
I hope you know I’m joking around :) the dog pics do get the most likes though
Disclaimer: I’m not an expert, these are just my opinions.
Depends on the AI available for the task. Data entry is at risk if there are improvements in automated data collection from the physical environment (or from mediums such as handwritten documents) with computer vision/remote sensing/image processing. Where computer vision solutions are not available, data entry is still needed to enter data into the databases used to train predictive and generative models.
Editing is at risk from large language models being able to analyze texts for logical structure and grammatical changes. In contrast, technical writing often details for schematics of physical systems or instructions for digital user interfaces and requires an understanding of how humans interact with their environments that AI can’t provide, so that role seems less at risk. However, software documentation for developers is already being automated in the software field by the “documentation as code” movement.
Software testing is already largely automated by programming with test frameworks. From what I understand, it’s just another field of software development. If programming can be replaced by AI then software testing can be replaced by AI. However, the AI will have to be tested itself, so at some level a human has to do some testing of the system.
Market research (especially that derived from digital marketing) seems to be the most at risk of being replaced to me. So much online commerce, communication on social media, and web advertising already uses cookies and webpage A/B testing that produce tons of digital data that is already pipelined and organized into databases. I think machine learning models have already been widely implemented in this space.
AI won’t outright replace these roles. Instead, productivity will increase for the few professionals that know how to designed prompts and set parameters AI tools while everyone else will becomes redundant. The working world will truly become broken when sensors and computer vision becomes good enough to replace data entry from physical processes (think of robotics and widespread surveillance networks) and when an AI model is created that can design and test new AIs. Then the only people employed will be small-scale manual laborers/technicians and software architecture oligarchs who own the AI infrastructure and technology. Marx predicted that increases in automation leads to periods of tension between classes (laborers and owners) and I agree with him that this is the direction that we are heading. However, I don’t think that either communist or capitalist economies will be able to effectively manage the disappearance of work from the economy. What will we say makes an object/pursuit (even a creative pursuit) valuable when we have to expend no effort to produce it?
IMO capitalists see skilled union labor as the final boss, and automating those fields is not their main weapon.
Instead the end goal is to flood the labor market using the “college is a scam, go to trade school” messaging that’s all over the internet as well as cutting office labor demand, and eventually switch to 1099 app-based contracting like Uber and Taskrabbit.
Lose billions by charging less to companies and paying significantly higher than union rates, then slowly rug pull as they become an oligopoly and recoup
High unemployment is not good for capitalism because the inability of people to feed their families cause riots. The answer is to keep them busy and extract as much value from their labor as possible
Oh well my vote be that all of these careers are already on the chopping block thanks to artificial intelligence. I have the job numbers and enough tech reports to see that the positions in the tech industry are decreasing at an alarming rate. So I think these are all gone z