"These estimates do not directly correspond to job losses, but they do indicate that a large proportion of occupations are vulnerable, and that there is an opportunity to leverage the jobs that will be most affected. We must have a plan for the impact that AI could have,” says Eric Parrado, chief economist at the IDB and co-author of the index."

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Women and low-skilled workers are more vulnerable to being replaced

    That’s because “AI” replacements have very little to do with applying LLMs where they are more useful and a lot to do with disciplining labor according to which labor has already been deemed less valuable.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Never underestimate the ability of capitalism to take a "labor saving" device and use it to its most hellish conclusion.

      Eli Whitney had hoped the invention of the Cotton Gin would help erode and eventually end the institution of slavery. All it did was make it worse.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Increase in productivity under a profit system means more work for fewer people, or under a slavery system more work for more people because labor cost isn't a factor.