They say that AI will create new jobs, but so far all I see is companies gradually laying off their employees and not replacing them. How is this supposed to continue?
They say that AI will create new jobs, but so far all I see is companies gradually laying off their employees and not replacing them. How is this supposed to continue?
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Every technology creates jobs. It doesn’t have to create more than it takes out, though.
The jobs created tend to be around that technology. Like creating/maintaining AI.
“They” say all kinds of things which are not necessarily true.
Also, companies have been known to lay people off for all kinds of reasons long before the AI has been invented.
The people displaced find other jobs. The value of a new technology isn’t that more people will be needed to support it than it will replace. The value is that fewer people will need to support it than it will replace, and those people can now do other things that nobody would have bothered to do otherwise. It hurts for them in the short term, but it means prices go down for everyone else and the standard of living goes up.
New jobs, not more jobs.
It is 100% creating a few new job types. Not many and very specific roles. It is also destroying 1000s of others.
Every large IT corporation (the ones who should be benefiting most) are doing their best, to replace as many humans as possible, with AI, as quickly as possible. The only reason every other company type is getting hot and wet about AI, is the thought of pumping out the same amount of work… with way less workers to pay.
New jobs, yes. But anyone telling you AI will create more jobs than it replaces, no.
AI will take far more Jobs than it provides, that’s its purpose, that’s why they are spending so much money and energy to create it. Wouldn’t be profitable unless it ends up saving more in wages lost
Couple of things:
The new jobs are not necessarily in the same company as the jobs they made obsolete. Companies adopting AI and reducing their workforce may not be replacing those workers, but there are workers in roles that were only recently created at the company providing the AI.
There aren’t necessarily the same number of new jobs as ones made obsolete. A big motivation for creating and maintaining this technology is that it can save on labour cost and can sometimes be more efficient.
AI is currently being used to improve productivity and efficiency in the work place after decades of encouraging low productivity and high employment with low wages. The end result is job losses. AI will create new jobs, humans will always be needed to do work, but AI will help us put people in roles that mean something, that give that individual purpose.
Say you have a business of 10,000 employees. AI is telling you that 34% of those employees are not working efficiently and their roles could be made redundant and replaced with candidates with better skills and professional development that will overall increase productivity in the company by 28%. You make a few thousand people redundant if you cannot retrain them, and hire in a few hundred highly skilled employees that can do way more work than say 2 or 3 previous employees. You have to pay them more, however, the job satisfaction in those new employees is higher and therefore motivation is higher, productivity and output is higher, and possibly profits may also increase.
It’s not gradual, they are implementing massive amounts of AI all across organizations on the fortune 500 list and -many- people are loosing jobs or about to loose jobs and just don’t know it yet
This has been a slow and then just instant march from 1830s industrialization.
Slaves have been tried, oppression has been tried, outright owning all the banks has been tried, all marching towards not needing mouths to feed between you and you profit.
Basically from Mesopotamia today 2025 and the march is almost done. 99% of the planet dies and the rest get to live in their global Eden and reset.
There are the people that creat the ai models. The individual companies that take them and train them for their purpose. You’ve got cyber security teams that now perform ai risk assessments. You’ve got synthetic data engineers, integration engineers, prompt engineers, etc.
So yes, it has created jobs.
We just have to hope that the obvious incompetence of LLM’s, with it’s inaccurate results and obvious lying will destroy enough businesses for them to reconsider. Until then, they’ll make great strides to accept poor performance since it’ll save them money in the short term.
New meaning different, not additional
Speaking as someone who’s job-hunting right now, AI has created a lot of jobs (I see them constantly on LinkedIn), but they’re all bottom-rung gig-economy jobs as AI trainers or QA for AI output.