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Uh the first two mostly just talk to people. Definitely getting replaced by a chatbot soon.
Teachers already use AI to create lesson plans and grade tests. There's a huge push to use even more AI in schools. The human element of having a teacher present is valuable, but unfortunately not easily measurable in a short term study so I'm fairly sure teaching jobs will be axed. I mean you don't have to get rid or every teacher, just increase class size 4x and you can already get rid of 75%.
Nurses, like I've mentioned before, will be there just to do the physical tasks. IVs, shots, etc. AI will decide what painkillers to administer, etc. Then nurses can be paid half as much and you'll need half as many. Automate the meaningful part of the job, leave the easily trainable.
Lawyers are already using AI en masse. It's resulting in loads of crap, but it won't for much longer. Just need appropriate MCPs to validate citations. The issue at present is using a regular chat interface target than a tailored agent.
Diplomats (and similarly, CEOs) indeed can not be replaced. Those jobs require consuming alcohol with other parties at the negotiating table, which AI can't do.
For most jobs, AI will just automate the thinking and decision making parts. Someone else needs to sign off and/or do the physical parts, but that means you can lay off most of the workforce and reduce the remaining part's pay since the job is streamlined and unemployment is high.
Guys, I found Elon's lemmy account
Yes, Elon for sure wants to tell everyone how the capitalists are replacing workers with AI and this isn't going to end well without socialism.
Point to where you said anything about socialism?
It seems more like you were just saying "let's replace all these jobs with AI because it's going to happen either way...
The socialism was implied; the things going to shit for a lot of us part, I spelled out in multiple comments in this behemoth of a thread, though not explicitly in this exact chain, so let's take a look.
Let's start here
Me mentioning how much it sucks that we're automating knowledge work while leaving around boring physical jobs
With that context in mind, let's go up directly in this comment chain:
You:
That other guy:
To which I finally replied:
I think you can see how I'm trying to point out to him that none of us is safe and we're all beyond fucked, while he's trying to claim "oh you can just work in healthcare or education", not realizing those industries are also going to be disrupted by cost cuttings.
I'm not even going to link it here because it was super long, but I also explained in a more recent comment that it's not my opinion that AI will do those jobs as good as a human or better. It's that AI will be cheap and "good enough" and people can be laid of en masse.
Long story short (and this is something I didn't explicitly mention in any of my other comments): I think human contact in social and health services is going to be a luxury in the future. Rich people will send their kids to private schools with good teachers, rest of us will have to send ours to public schools with AI doing most of the heavy lifting. Rich people will see a doctor in person, poor people will see someone significantly less training who uses AI as a diagnostic tool and only consults a real doctor when actually needed. Etc.