People working to make ends meet generally don’t have the time to worry about artificial intelligence taking their jobs until it’s too late. That’s already beginning to happen.

“…Earlier this year, a report from Goldman Sachs said that AI could potentially replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs.

Any job losses would not fall equally across the economy. According to the report, 46% of tasks in administrative and 44% in legal professions could be automated, but only 6% in construction and 4% in maintenance…

…This month IKEA said that, since 2021, it has retrained 8,500 staff who worked in its call centres as design advisers.

The furniture giant says that 47% of customer calls are now handled by an AI called Billie…”

“The workers already replaced by artificial intelligence“, BBC, Ian Rose, 16 Jun 2023

The article starts off with a copyrwriting team that may have lost their jobs to a large language model (AI), and a redemption of a human doing voiceovers.

This is an issue, and an issue that much of the world is not prepared for. An AI, despite it’s corporate entity being given human-hood by law, doesn’t have a family to feed.

Technology and humanity need to find a way to coexist properly, and I don’t know that present systems allow for that. I’m not even sure what the right questions are so that we can get the right answers.

Thoughts? What do you think needs to happen?