cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35786855
- The unemployment rate among college graduates has risen, with majors exposed to AI, including computer engineering design and architecture, among those affected.
- In addition, job growth across several white-collar sectors has been tepid, pointing to AI’s growing role in the workforce.
- Certain tech industries, including cloud, web search and computer systems design, stopped growing at the end of 2022, just after the release of ChatGPT.
Poised? It’s already happening. It’s true that many businesses are rushing, and and many of these precipitated decisions are coming back to bite them in the ass. But it will pregressively happen.
Something similar happened when computers appeared, in the span of a few years a number of jobs almost disappeared, like typists.
Companies had floors of people, mainly women, typing out documents, accounting departments, document distribution Airplane crews (first the radio/navigators, then then engineers, 50% of flight crews) etc.
When CAD appeared, most of the draftsmen lost their jobs,
When internet appeared, many others went out the windows, like travel agencies, many retail jobs, banking, and many more.
Robotics killed millions of jobs in manufacturing, and so on.
The switch to cleaner or more efficient modes of energy production killed millions of jobs in the coal industry, mechanization in agriculture…
Disruptive technologies do that.
The large picture is generally good for society, but for individuals it’s devastating.
Not an easy problem to solve.