The Future of Your Job in the Age of AI | Robots & Us | WIRED

Robot co-workers and artificial intelligence assistants are becoming more common in the workplace. Could they edge human employees out? What then?


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The Future of Your Job in the Age of AI | Robots & Us | WIRED

[MatthewCordaro]

40hr work week -> 30hr work week -> 20hr work week -> 10hr work week -> Beer o'clock, every o'clock. Problem solved.

[jonesnj]

*AI journalism could be awesome as it could be programmed to be completely impartial and unbiased*

[andrewzhoe]

this will make the future generations strive for education

[薄切り霊魂]

How about introducing basic income?
Combination of AI with BI is the best:)

[havek]

It's funny cause Alaska's UBI doesn't even cover the cost of goods increase for living in Alaska. It's more expensive to ship anything up there, so everything they import is going to be more expensive than here, and over the course of a year, the $1000-2200 doesn't even cover that lol

[copypastemyname]

Can we have an optional Gordon Ramsay Profanity Patch-in for robot chefs please?

[Yuchub]

The future is for multidisciplinary people. Creativity will be more important and thinking outside of the box.

[Lnclt]

well, i'm working tech support... as long as someone is needed to maintain those bots and the equipment that controls them, i'll still have a job. might even get busier with more stuff to repair and maintain! ^^

[sparkss]

But if you have UBI wouldn't it mean all products will gradually get more expensive (because at first everyone will be able to afford them, so the price will have to go up). Eventually people who rely on UBI as their sole income will not be able to afford basic sustenance.

[blaze]

We don't need UBI. We need transformation through new business models that don't operate on hierarchical ownership, but on shared proportional ownership with protections against the exploitation of labor. This is an issue of exploitation of labor rearing it's head. Without exploitation of labor as "efficiency" that is in reality paying someone less than their portion of a product's worth, this is an advancement that benefits all owners.

The problem is that a few consolidate ownership. A factory worker that owns their portion of the means of production wants to replace their labor with a machine's when that makes their means of production yield greater results. These same means of production then transfer into a different labor role of shared ownership and new jobs with their portion of this new means of production as maintenance and development of these machines.

This is again a simple idea. I'm just explaining why it works. The idea is that if people maintain ownership of their means of production, this is a non-issue. Exploitation instead cuts out these would be owners since they have no ownership as soon as their work is no longer needed. That makes sense in a way, but as consolidating ownership into the hands of a few.

All workers must own their portion of the means of production. Such ownership when replaced with machines can be invested into machines for higher RoI by working less. What a deal! Again a deal made impossible by consolidating the ownership of the means of production.

The state has no right to ownership of the people's means of production. Oligarchs have no right to the people's means of production. Only the *people* have the right to their means of production. A government cannot consolidate this power to protect the people's right to this ownership. It can only protect human individual property rights as civil rights protections against exploitation against ownership of one's portion of their means of production. It is becoming essential for our economic stability to protect this human right as a civil right.

[bangbangtangahwei]

No drama, no complaint, no labor strike

[MarinelliBrosPodcast]

Robots can't climb 300ft and repair a wind turbine, build an apartment, or fix your plumbing (they would get wet and break).

[ssssInfluence]

You might think going into robotics is a safe career choice, and it the robots start building other robots.

[bornintoacorruptsystemto]

We need to flush jobs down the toilet we need freedom from jobs now

[NChambernator]

When you passed on that scholarship opportunity to go work in your dads shop.

[JD]

I for one welcome our robotic overlords

[cmvamerica]

We’ve been through this many times and it always turns out for the better. But you can’t replace a good old fashion human prostitute.

[eizhowa]

Lawyers, judges, politicians, artists etc are unlikely to be replaced by machines.

[greyhead]

To have the universal pay there has to be one currency and one whole country (every country is formed into one country)

[rdoetjes]

As a (social) libertarian the whole basic income made Intuitively uneasy a few years back. When I heard the arguments as to why (same is in this video) I was already on the fence because as a programmer I see how fast AI is developing And in the next 50 years I think that indeed 50-80% of the jobs are obsolete. And we cannot let 80% of our country die from hunger and you want to have them have enough to by the goods and services that are now produced by robots. So the basic income seems to be the first step to eventually a currency free world.