Mechanization creates a disruption in which anything that can be automated will be. But creative freedom is precisely the sort of thing that can’t be automated.
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Those who worry about AI eliminating jobs have failed to learn the lesson of history, which has seen countless jobs eliminated time and again, and each time more jobs created.
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Mayne argues that there will always be more demand for people to do things as prosperity grows. Historically, that is correct.
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Marks points out that model collapse means that AI can’t simply keep getting better by training itself until it becomes a superintelligence.
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Data centers will probably create jobs as well as eliminate them, which is usually what new technologies do, but environment concerns remain.
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Just as the AI industry is becoming more analytical and realistic about how best to use AI, some users are falling in love with chatbots. We need to know more.
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From recent news: ● “AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies” Down? The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employees, see chart below. Torsten Sløk, Apollo Chief Economist, September 7, 2025 Apollo is a coaching firm for investors. Currently, unemployment is up but it’s still more likely to be due to traditional issues than “A hot bot got my slot!” However, some Read More ›
It’s no mystery why LLMs aren’t intelligent in any meaningful way. The real mystery is why so many otherwise intelligent people still take the claims seriously.
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LLMs excel at simple coding tasks but are still too unreliable to use without extensive human supervision on complex tasks where mistakes are expensive.
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The job market for recent college grads may be warning us that participation trophies for college and ChatGPT use have long-run costs.
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Suppose that AI genuinely poses a threat to the human species, but in a much subtler way than we expect?
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Individual workers may claim huge productivity gains for their work, ignoring the impact of AI on the work of downstream employees within the same process.
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Among the problems that AI Morality tackles is the risk that even if AI doesn’t reduce the quantity of jobs, it may greatly affect the quality of jobs available
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Full-time employees, challenged to incorporate AI more fundamentally into their schedule and skillsets, are not seeing the promised productivity yields.
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Even though writers wanted nothing to do with the chatbots, their work is still being flagged by detectors. And it’s literally costing them their jobs.
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Semi- but not-fully capable AI systems allow us to be lazy in some respects, but demand that we be less lazy in others.
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The Big Tech companies may see replacing workers with AI as only natural. After all, that’s the future their executives were told from childhood to expect.
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Actors and entertainers might be needed much less — only to generate a new idea that can then be tweaked and replicated by ever-smaller studios.
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The pandemic changed the way we work, with more people opting for online or “hybrid” schedules, office buildings emptying, and boundaries between work and other aspects of life starting to get blurred. But what is the general attitude towards work in the United States? According to Simone Stolzoff, author of the forthcoming The Good Enough Job, Americans are turning to their careers like people used to turn to religion: for meaning and a sense of self-worth. This new secular religion is called “workism.” In an interview with Wired, Stolzoff said, [Workism] is treating work akin to a religious identity. It’s looking to work not just for a paycheck but also for a community, a sense of identity and purpose and Read More ›
As chatbots become more sophisticated, some writers predict that they will take over run-of-the-mill writing jobs that don’t need or attract much creativity. For example, copyright and plagiarism consultant Jonathan Bailey points out, “AI doesn’t have to be great, just good enough.” In 2017, five years ago, the Washington Post revealed that an AI bot named Heliograph had produced some 850 articles for the paper. However, those stories were for things such as local high school football games and financial reports. They were all short, formulaic and not worth sending a human reporter to. At the time, the stories had generated more than 500,000 clicks. In short, they were ridiculously successful, delivering information that was important and sought after, but Read More ›