“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.”
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.
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.
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.
Oh boy more precarity, more surplus labor, and it burns forests and dries up lakes! THE FUTURE! Why are you afraid and emotional, Luddite?
well can we begin the unrest and working class organization already? I am tired of this era
