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With all the talk of AI taking jobs, what jobs will AI create?

3 points by happytiger ↗ HN
I find myself genuinely curious about whether or not there’s actually something to the idea that AI is actually a job creator, and like the Internet we just don’t see how it’s going to transform things yet. So what do you think? What kind of jobs are going to be created by AI over the next 5 to 10 years? How would you advise someone coming out of high school right now to adjust their trajectory to work with the emerging technology stacks? What advice is the best advice for the upcoming generations around this wave? For all the negativity, I personally have found technology disruption has lead to a dramatic improvement in my life and I’m curious whether others are thinking about these things like we are. This was a family dinner discussion between three generations of my family and I’d love to know what HN has to say about the subject — because our intimiate discussion was pretty interesting.

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shams93
Older people cannot digest what is happening, here in LA County literally the only job openings are for psychiatrists.
shams93
Its interesting because food stamps have a work requirement so basically when Ai kills your career and there is nothing else you are either good at begging like me or starved to death by the government.
joegibbs
I think a lot of personality-based jobs will flourish - streamer, comedian, influencer - that kind of thing. I think that while there's no technical reason an AI couldn't do those jobs - you can put together Stable Diffusion and an LLM to do Instagram posts recommending a restaurant or shilling a product - the idea that they're a relatable human just like you or me is what makes people interested in them. There are some virtual influencers but I think that's a niche, their appeal comes from being one of a few. If there were a million virtual influencers I think that people would find them annoying and get put off.

Physical labour, like carpentry or plumbing, won't be going away until we get flexible humanoid robots. I think that a lot of the savings and efficiency gained by using AI will mean that people will want more physical goods and larger houses.

I think there will be programmers for at least another 15 years. It will become more high-level and specialised though.

coldtea
>I think a lot of personality-based jobs will flourish - streamer, comedian, influencer - that kind of thing.

We're already past the saturation point for these, and they were always the kind of jobs that one will pull off out of thousands trying. They're not a career that you just go into, studying and then landing a job, like being a programmer or a laywer. They're more like aspiring to be smaller-scale "Hollywood star" or "Pro skateboarder".

All of those in any case depend on the rest of the world having actual jobs, to pay for this entertainment. In a downturn, streamers, comedians, influencers are the first to go.

Judging from the state of countries with huge unemployement, the future is slums, not influencer gigs.