The speed of how fast this could happen is the mind-bender, and so hard to accept, that human brains put it in the back seat and keep a mantra that everything will be fine.
Top Economist Warns AI Could Triple Unemployment Within a Decade — ‘What We Are Living Through…Is Unprecedented’
Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu warns AI could triple unemployment within a decade without policy changes, framing current job disruption as historically fast.
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11 million is conservative, and so is the timeline. This will happen faster and at a larger scale than this estimation.
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AI will displace labor like no other technology in history. Will they migrate to the trades?
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Everything is a pro and a con in the universe. Water can kill yet is needed for life. It will follow that AI is a double-edged sword. If the cons are commiserate with the pros, then AI being a superpower may cause superpower-level cons.