If you are white collar then it's going to "disrupt" your field.
I work in tech. I got laid off last year. I wasn't at Alphabet or Amazon or anything. Much smaller company. But AI "optimization" has ravaged the tech industry and not just programmers. Admins, database specialists, network specialists, developers, you name it. Our job market is absolutely fucked.
In my county, a major metro area in the US (like, top 10) craigslist used to be the place to get real job postings. If it wasn't a recruiter then your odds of getting a callback from a job posting there is pretty high. There are plenty of postings for other fields like mechanics and tradesmen and so on. For the few tech categories: nothing in the last month. Zero postings. Not even recruiter ads. Literally nothing. It's a wasteland.
I've been told to "go back to school." I'll be 41 soon. I'm still paying off my computer science degree. It's worthless. What else should I go for? Accounting? HR? These are going to be taken by AI, too. Will it be a mistake? Sure. They don't care. They'll do it anyways.
When I got my degree my wife and I were homeless. We just got back out of the hole in the last 10 years. I was finally building savings. It'll be gone in 60 days. She was laid off on Friday. Her industry is in property finance. Another gutted industry. She has to change industries, too.
What is to be done?
Jesus Christ
I think AI could be used, theoretically, to convincingly create the illusion of practically any job being done, but it’s non- insignificant chance of “hallucinating” which grows more likely the more something requires subjective experience to properly analyze means the quality of job output is going to get worse and worse over time until all of philosophy and media is filled with a glut of completely meaningless slop and we do our best not to starve to death by selling our bodies for manual labor which is only compensated to the degree which it is cheaper than building a machine to do it
As AIs get less novel real-world data to use, significant AI collapse will be real in our time. They are fundamentally reliant on human experience, so yeah, as fewer humans do the job, the quality will dive.