The highest unemployment rate during the great depression was 24%. The knockon effects of almost 12% of the ecconomy losing work will make that pale in comparison. But hey, this 12% is probably just at the beginning. After all, AI is the worst it will ever be.
This seems like a recipe for guillotines or UBI. Wonder wich the rich will choose?
Edir: was he the first of many?
None of these things will be replaced. They will be (and are) assistants, which is nice, but the idea that whole professions will be usurped is fantasy.
Welcome to lemmy where every question is 100% or 0%. AI will augment many professions leading to a lower need for such people.
Fediverse Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and pedantry. We must be cautious.