AI vs Jobs

"In a speech aiming to present the UK as a world leader on AI, the PM said the technology was already creating jobs."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-67227080


With the Big Cheese in the news today. Talking about investment in AI tech. As we keep hearing the mantra, "That work is good for society..." But instead of creating jobs, how many positions will be lost with advances in technology? Just look at the Industrialization of the UK, and the rise of computing in the workplace.  Why employ a human, when a computer/robot can perform better/faster/ and for less money. But doesn't pay taxes into the system.  You can see the oxymoron here, on one hand they want full employment. And on the other, technology just streamlines the workforce even faster. While I am not saying many people would want to live in a Victorian era of no internet/computing/electricity.  However, they have seemed to forget the revenue generated by taxes.  So will they introduce a 'Artificial Intelligence Network Tax', or Ain't for short ( ok it might need some help on the name...). And how long before the first computer ️ strike??? 'We ain't gonna pay the AINT"... Scrolling across a vdu screensaver. As the country grinds to a halt, as we are so reliant on technology for everyday living..  Nurse, nurse where did I put them tablets ..



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t

I will eat my jobsearch book if a Universal Basic Income is ever accepted by The Man as the way to address the job losses AI/even more automation will inevitably lead to.

As for an AI tax, whatever happened to the mooted Amazon tax to get online retailers on a similar footing to bricks & mortar retail? Can you imagine those on the right side of the technological divide wanting to pay higher taxes to support the unwashed masses who have nothing but cat sat on the mat certificates to offer?

I fear the future for those not at the sharp end of designing AI will be similar to the Dickensian past.

I agree #Ignatius, just look at the Industrial Revolution, and certain occupations where vanished into the ether ️.

You have to imagine the employment sectors that will as you say 'be at the sharp end'? I recon most of the 'Service industries', if I was going to place my bet. The 'Morons' :
Management
Organizational
Resources (hr)
Office
Networking

Only time will tell?

Linked to this 'Driverless vehicles' and people employed in the transport sector. Maybe not as yet, with the traffic accidents and having trouble them. However, it's on the cards.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67212093

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1828999/driverless-cars-risks-safety-autonomous-vehicles

I'm a little confused🤨 here, one minute this technology is good for society. And yet today, they are suggesting about potential risks.

"The UK, US, EU and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology."


What does the computer ️ suggest??


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/01/uk-us-eu-and-china-sign-declaration-of-ais-catastrophic-danger

Hears an article about this topic. Prof Widerquist, makes its sound like a race to the bottom? Still being a Professor of Philosophy, your be insulated from the effects of computer-ization ...

Economist and political theorist Karl Widerquist, professor of philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar, sees it differently.

“Even if AI takes your job away, you don’t necessarily just become unemployed for the rest of your life,” he says. “What happens is you go down in the labour market, you start crowding the lower-income professions.”

Widerquist believes, at least in the short term, that the growth of AI will push white-collar workers into the gig economy, and into other forms of poorly paid, insecure work. Such a shift in the workforce would, he fears, drive down wages and conditions, while increasing inequality.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/ai-is-coming-for-our-jobs-could-universal-basic-income-be-the-solution

And you could guess, many companies won't exploit this '...drive down wages and conditions, while increasing inequality' . Sounds like when the UK started to 'out source' many jobs overseas , cause that went well....