The anxiety over AI is definitely real. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 71% of respondents said they were concerned that AI will put “too many people out of work permanently.” Pew Research found that more than half of Americans are worried about how AI in the workplace will impact their jobs, and most lower- and middle-class people believe AI will worsen their job prospects in the future. https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-new-term-for-workers-freaking-out-over-being-replaced-by-ai-2000723019 Accenture Amazon Google Microsoft Amazon Web Services Workday Salesforce





AI is the convenient justification for CEOs who want to cut headcount and needed an excuse.
Rising Star
Or offshore the resources.
Rising Star
If enough people lose their jobs at one time, they will gather up torches and pitchforks and burn down the data centers supporting AI. A re-balancing would happen.
What? No there’s a simple solution to that, they can just pay half the peasants to kill the other half who are revolting.
Enthusiast
In 2023 we we were told by 2025 many of Software Dev jobs will be replaced by AI, all investment in AI so far has proven quite useless at least as far as Software engineering goes, research performed by MIT concluded that code developed by AI is costlier to maintain over time given the amount of effort spent to interpret and debug it
Many of our jobs aren’t going anywhere
AI was supposed to replace entry level jobs but the fact is if we don’t have entry level jobs today in few yrs companies won’t have any candidates for mid level and senior level jobs, and it is not wise to just sacrifice future for perceived immediate benefits
Rising Star
Too bad this isn’t how the C-suite thinks.