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The AI future is already here New data confirms it: Companies are hiring less in roles that AI can do (Original Post) CentralMass Jun 2025 OP
I've already had people tell me they've lost jobs to ai! SheltieLover Jun 2025 #1
I think it is going eliminate a lot of jobs. CentralMass Jun 2025 #2
Yes, it will. SheltieLover Jun 2025 #6
Why should it be illegal? Renew Deal Jun 2025 #3
Typewriters and printing presses took away the jobs of scribes. Oopsie Daisy Jun 2025 #4
Right Renew Deal Jun 2025 #5

SheltieLover

(76,919 posts)
1. I've already had people tell me they've lost jobs to ai!
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 10:20 AM
Jun 2025

Medical scribes & clerical workers.

Not a pretty picture!

Ai should be illegal, imo.

SheltieLover

(76,919 posts)
6. Yes, it will.
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 02:00 PM
Jun 2025

The scourage of our existence, imo.

And, if you think about it, wth wants their medical records to be entered by hallucinating ai?

And where are the ai records being sold?

Renew Deal

(84,709 posts)
3. Why should it be illegal?
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 11:09 AM
Jun 2025

Did you know that DU's technology is a form of AI? So is a calculator.

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
4. Typewriters and printing presses took away the jobs of scribes.
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 11:31 AM
Jun 2025

And the automotive industry completely destroyed the buggy whip making industry. Rotary dial and touch tone killed off the switchboard operator.

Renew Deal

(84,709 posts)
5. Right
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 11:33 AM
Jun 2025

Technology will advance. That's the nature of things. It's also not just about things being replaced. There are new opportunities. For example, the technology used to create vaccines mitigated the impact of Covid.

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