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Jeff Kagan: Here’s how long it will take AI to eliminate your job

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Jeff Kagan: Here's how long it will take for AI to eliminate your job

We are told artificial intelligence will be the most important, most significant and most impactful new technology we have ever seen. Sounds impressive, right? Then again, we were told something similar about 25 years ago with another new technology called the Segway scooter if you recall.

AI is important. AI will change everything in so many ways. Like the internet, AI will be full of both good and bad. Will AI also replace you and your job? Experts say the answer is yes for many sectors. If so, when will this happen. To tell you the truth, job loss has already begun.

Anthropic Claude AI reports how tech blackmails engineer

Like every other technological breakthrough, there will be changes with AI. Some of these changes will be good. They will help the blind see and the paralyzed walk. Lots of amazing results and miracle-like events could become commonplace.

There will also be things that are not so good. Things like job loss and the recent news from Anthropic with their Claude AI about how the technology is trying to blackmail an engineer about their affair to keep itself powered on.

There will be an increasing number of examples as we move forward, but one thing that is not being discussed enough is the coming wave of job loss thanks to AI. We already see it all around us.

Example, when we walk into McDonalds or Taco Bell and have to punch the screen a dozen times instead of speaking to a real, live person at the counter. Or when we order something on Amazon.com, Walmart.com or Target.com and it recommends other things we would be interested in.

Jobs are increasingly being lost due to AI

Jobs are already being lost this way and have been for years. As AI continues to get better and stronger, the technology will move up the food chain.

There are a wide variety of jobs including entry level or basic level jobs. Next, there are midlevel jobs. Then higher level jobs. There are also executive level jobs like CEO, CFO, CMO, CaiO and so on.

When we say the term “job loss”, I believe we generally think of it affecting levels beneath us. Not our jobs. That will never happen, right? This denial of reality means we are acting blind. As AI gets better and stronger it impacts higher-level jobs. The fear is if we look ahead five, 10, 20 years and beyond, a growing variety of jobs will be lost to AI.

This has happened with every other major technological leap we have ever taken like when the airlines or automobiles changed the train industry.

So, here are the questions you want an answer to: How safe is your job? How will this impact our economy? How will we pay for food, housing, transportation, clothing, computers and everything else we use every day?

These serious questions are not being addressed yet, but we are like a deer frozen in the headlights of an oncoming car.

Job loss will impact society, our personal and worldwide economy

This is not unlike the M&A game. I have watched the telecom industry change over time from dozens of smaller competitors to a small handful of giants. During the process, everyone was for the M&A movement. However, in the end, many people lost their jobs because companies only need one in every position.

I do not have the answer to this AI question. In fact, I don’t think anyone does. Not yet. However, we need to have this discussion on an ongoing basis. AI will not just be another new technology like the iPhone or Android. It could impact every one of us and in fact our entire economy in many ways, for both the good and bad.

Then again, it could just be another Segway moment. You know a lot of worry for nothing. We will just have to wait and see how it unfolds.

I will continue to discuss the good and the bad of AI. We can’t stop it. It will change everything for the better and the worse, both for us as individuals and for our civilization. We had better move forward with our eyes open or we may be sorry.

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