The Impact Of AI On Jobs

In the 1800s, 90% of the population worked in farming. Today, only 1.5% do.

It took centuries for a shift of this magnitude to happen, but today's job landscape will shift at a much faster pace thanks to AI.

On the a16z podcast, we’re joined by Kai Roemmelt, CEO of Udacity, to explore how AI is changing the job market.

[thehari]

Yes but these farming changes happened in 100 years, but now ai will cause the biggest job distruption in 10-15 years. Im worried if society will be able to adapt and reskill, upskill fast enough.

[davidward]

If artificial intelligence works as good as GPS or our cell phones will be in deep doo-doo

[mohammad_mohammad.]

I agreed that AI will reduce the labour force so we can focus on other problems, but it shouldn't be in the hands of capitalistic companies.

[davidward]

His analogy is way off base he's saying because we have more people off the farm now it has allowed us to do this