Workers are in danger because of AI?

[Cody James]

Workers are in danger because of AI?

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the workplace has sparked concerns about job security and potential replacements for human workers. Dean Meadowcroft, a former copywriter in a small marketing department, experienced firsthand the impact of AI on his job. Initially intended to work alongside human copywriters to streamline the process, the AI system fell short in delivering quality content that stood out. Despite its shortcomings, the AI was significantly faster, completing tasks that would take a human copywriter 60 to 90 minutes in just 10 minutes or less.

Approximately four months after implementing the AI system, Meadowcroft's team of four copywriters was laid off, leading him to believe that the AI had replaced them. This scenario reflects a larger trend, as AI technology continues to advance and companies seek to optimize efficiency and productivity. OpenAI's ChatGPT, a human-like response generator, and Google's Bard are just a few examples of AI systems capable of generating essays, speeches, and other content within minutes.

The introduction of AI in the workplace has raised concerns about potential job losses. A report by Goldman Sachs suggested that AI could potentially replace 300 million full-time jobs, although the impact would not be evenly distributed across industries. Administrative and legal professions face higher risks, with 46% and 44% of tasks, respectively, susceptible to automation. In contrast, construction and maintenance occupations face lower risks, with only 6% and 4% of tasks, respectively, vulnerable to automation.

While the adoption of AI technology may result in job displacement, it also has the potential to boost productivity, economic growth, and create new job opportunities. IKEA, for example, has retrained thousands of call center staff as design advisers, with an AI named Billie handling 47% of customer calls. The furniture giant does not foresee job losses due to AI implementation. However, concerns surrounding AI persist, as highlighted by a recent survey by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The survey revealed that a third of workers polled expressed anxiety about being replaced by AI, particularly among frontline staff.

The fear of the unknown and lack of familiarity with AI contribute to heightened concerns among workers. Managers and leaders, who are more acquainted with AI technology, exhibit lower levels of anxiety compared to frontline staff. The uncertainties surrounding AI are evident in the experiences of professionals like Alejandro Graue, a voiceover artist. Graue discovered that an AI-generated voice had replaced his work on a YouTube channel, leaving him worried about the future of his profession. Although the experiment with AI-generated voiceovers was unsuccessful due to poor quality, Graue remains uncertain about the advancements in AI technology and its potential impact on his career.

While AI may not entirely replace certain job roles, many workers will likely find themselves collaborating with AI systems in some capacity. Dean Meadowcroft, now working for an employee assistance provider that offers mental health and wellbeing advice, has adapted to this changing landscape. He believes the future of AI lies in providing quick access to human-led content rather than completely eliminating the human aspect.

As AI continues to evolve, it is essential to strike a balance between leveraging its capabilities for increased efficiency and preserving the unique qualities that human workers bring to the table. The integration of AI in the workplace calls for reskilling and adapting to new roles that complement AI technology, ensuring a harmonious relationship between humans and machines.

Whats your thought?

[Uzairmoti11]

Whats your thought?

As AI is incorporated more and more, worries about possible risks to labor grow. Some jobs may become out of date as automation and artificial intelligence develop, which could be a threat to employment chances for particular industries. Industry and policymakers must support upskilling and reskilling activities in order to proactively address these issues. Negative effects can also be reduced by promoting a cooperative atmosphere where people and AI complement one another. Maintaining job security and keeping technology advanced must be balanced in order to facilitate a smooth transition to an AI-driven future.

[Agbe]

AI cannot take over human labour. AI is already programed and human knowledge is unlimited so to what extent AI becomes a threat to human labour. If a question is asked AI gives the same answer while human gives different answers. And the only thing I can say that AI helps human is, it makes things easy to search. The believe of the new generational approach and ideology, human labour can not be eliminated in any technology.

[Thyplaymaker]

Most people are trying to use Ai in everything trying to keep up with human at we all know that's impossible Ai knowledge it's fixed why humans are limitless. There I came across some stuff the other day. About how most film writers using Ai to create are movie in a short notice while taking others years. But fans still complain that the movie was nice but was somehow blank like there where no emotions to it. Like we humans do things with emotions. And we have something Ai can never have which is heart.

[DabsPoorVersion]

There's no reason why should be concerned if ever we are replaced by AI on our jobs. AI was created to assist us, humans, and given a program to replicate our abilities. However, AI's abilities are limited to the information programmed into them. Unlike humans, we have no limits to our learning and continuously progress over time.

[Tribalchief]

Your write up was great. But i think i should share my opinion. I have written this same content on different platforms, with the same message but different topic title. Definitely, AI is going to be a big threat to people's jobs, but there is something that should be noted, and that is 'value'.

AI has a better working rate than humans, i.e it does a task in lesser time, but does it have value ?. People in the world wants a piece of information that was originated from natural/human intelligence. They see this information as something that contains more value than that of the AI.

The popular Mona Lisa painting is something that can be drawn by an AI, but i assure you that 95% of people that loves painting would want to go for the original human painting instead of the one drawn by the ai.

In conclusion, i think value will differentiate human effort from ai.

[gunhell16]

Actually many other workers in other countries are probably worried about AI robots that can replace them, but I have never heard of a company whose employees are all AI robots, I have never heard of anything like this news on any social media platform, and so on.

But it's still possible in the future, because companies can save money if they actually do it. It's just that there are disadvantages to using them because they don't have emotions, instead what is programmed will be their response for sure.

[Agbe]

In addition to what I have said and what others behave said. AI cannot learn this from human but human beings can learn things from AI. And that is why human beings create higher technology every year, decades and centuries. And according to history cryptocurrency is not a new technology but it has been in existence on the earth for years but the recent innovation, and technology in advance makes it more superior to the first one which was known in the ecosystem. The most beautiful part of AI is that it makes easy for the human to use and it increases the knowledge of human to manufacture another higher ones. Like before we used Google to asked for answers but now AI will do the job very fast. Everything is from human brain.

[Cheema02]

Whats your thought?

As AI is incorporated more and more, worries about possible risks to labor grow. Some jobs may become out of date as automation and artificial intelligence develop, which could be a threat to employment chances for particular industries. Industry and policymakers must support upskilling and reskilling activities in order to proactively address these issues. Negative effects can also be reduced by promoting a cooperative atmosphere where people and AI complement one another. Maintaining job security and keeping technology advanced must be balanced in order to facilitate a smooth transition to an AI-driven future.

In my opinion Ai certainly increases efficiency it also raises questions about job security. In the workplace there is a balance between displacement and enhancement. There is reason to be concerned about jobs being lost to automation, particularly in some industries. But AI can also be used to collaborate and adapt leading to a peaceful coexistence. I think balanced future can be achieved by accepting new occupations that complement AI and reskilling existing ones.

[DrBeer]

The world is changing, progress doesn't stand still. I believe that some professions, or more correctly, low-qualified specialists in some professions can be replaced by AI.
the thing is that what we think of as AI is not AI. These are systems with a huge set of data wrapped in a convenient language model, with elements of learning and high speed of information delivery or content generation. Accordingly, they can replace some people by doing their work for them. But this is as natural a process as, for example, the withdrawal from the market of some specialties - stoker, horseman, letter carrier, and some others that have been replaced by more technological solutions....
So, some people really should retrain and try other jobs.

[Agbe]

The world is changing, progress doesn't stand still. I believe that some professions, or more correctly, low-qualified specialists in some professions can be replaced by AI.
the thing is that what we think of as AI is not AI. These are systems with a huge set of data wrapped in a convenient language model, with elements of learning and high speed of information delivery or content generation. Accordingly, they can replace some people by doing their work for them. But this is as natural a process as, for example, the withdrawal from the market of some specialties - stoker, horseman, letter carrier, and some others that have been replaced by more technological solutions....
So, some people really should retrain and try other jobs.

The way I was thinking about this, if really government wants to employ workers massively, they can employ because AI can only reduce the work force from the professional workers and not the minor field workers. The matter technological innovations is very high in the world, Robots can not over take human beings in anything because even at that they are still manipulated by human. AI can take over the office of Clerical Officers which is base on recording documents and AI can do that work very effectively in the digital storage.

[electronicash]

after i saw AI can generate images and the very recent happiest rabbit that its almost godly like, it sure is somewhat going to replace the graphic artist in the future.

there was even a news recently where there was a photo contest and the winner revealed it was actually generated by AI.  i'm sure it was such a disappointment to all the contestant but surprisingly non of them have the idea even the judges.

[DrBeer]

The world is changing, progress doesn't stand still. I believe that some professions, or more correctly, low-qualified specialists in some professions can be replaced by AI.
the thing is that what we think of as AI is not AI. These are systems with a huge set of data wrapped in a convenient language model, with elements of learning and high speed of information delivery or content generation. Accordingly, they can replace some people by doing their work for them. But this is as natural a process as, for example, the withdrawal from the market of some specialties - stoker, horseman, letter carrier, and some others that have been replaced by more technological solutions....
So, some people really should retrain and try other jobs.

The way I was thinking about this, if really government wants to employ workers massively, they can employ because AI can only reduce the work force from the professional workers and not the minor field workers. The matter technological innovations is very high in the world, Robots can not over take human beings in anything because even at that they are still manipulated by human. AI can take over the office of Clerical Officers which is base on recording documents and AI can do that work very effectively in the digital storage.

To begin with, we need to accept reality and clarify - what we see now and what we are talking about now is not Artificial Intelligence. It is huge repositories of knowledge plus neural networks capable of learning and it is all "wrapped" in large language models. But there is no INTELLIGENCE there. So these systems MAY be able to generate answers by taking seconds to process a HUGE amount of information, which is really beyond human capacity. So at the moment the system can only generate ANSWERS (texts, pictures, code, ...) to user queries. I will also mention that such a concept (though using AI abbreviation) as "Generative Artificial Intelligence" has been introduced. The description of this concept is a type of AI that can create new content and ideas, including conversations, stories, images, videos and music.

Accordingly, it can only "replace" a small fraction of humans. I put the word "replace" in quotation marks for a reason - because the system works under the CONTROL of a human who can formulate a task, make a description of the statement, accept the answer, and give corrective comments to re-generate the answer. Total - if it replaces only inefficient employees. But it will require effective task setters for "AI" and those who can control their work.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Workers are in danger because of AI?

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the workplace has sparked concerns about job security and potential replacements for human workers

Ok, I am going to give you a scenario here: during the olden days, our (my people) people farmed a lot with different manual tools and equipment. Due to the physical strength of some animals, the farmers use them to transport their farm products to the market, while some animals assist in the construction of ridges too. But in the 21st century,we now have buses and trucks that help in the transportation of those farm products to the market. We also have some automatic machines that construct ridges, while there are some that till the soil. We also have machines that harvest the fruits, and other existing automatic machines that have made farm work easier.

With the above scenario being narrated, my question is: did the development of new farm equipment stop farmers from doing the work they are supposed to do? The answer is no. Now that trucks are used to transport goods, there is still a need to employ a human as a driver. All the new farming equipment still requires someone to operate it and also service it. It still needs someone to clean them up and maintain them for efficient work.

In conclusion, even if AI keeps evolving, it will not totally take up all the human work but will still create another opportunity for humans.

[DrBeer]

after i saw AI can generate images and the very recent happiest rabbit that its almost godly like, it sure is somewhat going to replace the graphic artist in the future.

there was even a news recently where there was a photo contest and the winner revealed it was actually generated by AI.  i'm sure it was such a disappointment to all the contestant but surprisingly non of them have the idea even the judges.

I'll give you another example
When movers used to carry loads by hand, there was a huge amount of them, everyone was busy with hard work. But at first primitive technical means - like "blocks" - appeared and it became easier for people.... And then came the rockcars and forklifts And if we now hold a competition on the productivity of a human loader and a rockla with an operator, the second solution will win by a huge margin. Yes, humans have many limitations that machinery and technology do not have !
PS Maybe the example is not quite accurate, in relation to the example with photo, but the basic essence conveys well