Will the A.I. revolution create or destroy jobs?

Will the AI revolution create or destroy jobs?

The answer is yes. It will create and destroy jobs. Which will be more? Historically looking at technology revolutions - technology revolutions generally create more jobs than they destroy. So, it's likely AI will be the same way. The challenge, though, is that AI, when it destroys jobs, will do so completely. So routine jobs such as back office jobs and assembly line jobs and in the future, jobs like drivers and many office workers that do routine jobs, will be outright replaced by AI. So that's a significant issue. AI will also create jobs, but we don't yet know what those are, when they will be. One thing that is known is that the jobs created by AI will be non-routine jobs. So, there is a big issue about routine job workers who lose their jobs and now have to be retrained for the non-routine jobs.

[banyan]

That's why Andrew Yang has been talking about we need to rethink the definition of job in a future with AI .

[rainieresguerra]

It will do both. But we should help people transition smoother and cope up better with the effects of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Andrew Yang's UBI is exactly what we need.

[thatguyfrankie]

This is such a simple question to answer, idk why people can't understand it. A.I is artificial intelligence! Not just a piece of hardware. In time to come it will solve problems that would take a human hrs/days/months, in a second. You can have a warehouse of A.I(destoyed jobs) and one or a few people monitoring it(new jobs). Do the ratio and you can see how serious automation is.

[thinkbeyond]

It is about the skill level requirements of the new jobs created. "Learn to code" is not going to work for the majority of people.

[slimjake]

it creates jobs nobody can fill ... why amazon has 30k open jobs

[frankhynd]

Mr Kai-Fu Lee says that AI will create more jobs than it will destroy. That may be true. However, there will a time period before the new jobs are created and they will not be filled by the the same people due to the educational requirements of the new jobs which will be more analytical and less routine. More supporters for Trump and European populists are in the pipeline.

[kennyloong]

The job ai created is coding and machine building. And lot more designer. Which retrain quite not working