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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Your job may disappear altogether — not good — or artificial intelligence may enhance your job, so you actually will be more productive and your income level may go up,"

Our income level may go up 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😅😅😅🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😅😅🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😅🤣😂😂😂

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, cause automation and productivity increase has always been transferred to the laborer from which wages are derived.

Oh wait, no it gets taken by the capitalist owner and we get even less money for the work we get done.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technology will give us all lives of wealth and leisure any day now... so just keep working and don't pay any attention to the capitalist behind the curtain.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

It's been clear for a long time now that automation was set to explode in use. Now we're staring down the barrel of the gun and neither countries nor the world at large are seriously considering the answers we need to find to avoid economic catastrophe.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Artificial intelligence (AI) could affect 60% of jobs in developed economies, according to a study published by the International Monetary Fund ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The study predicted that around half of those jobs will be negatively affected by AI, while the other half will see a positive impact.

"Your job may disappear altogether — not good — or artificial intelligence may enhance your job, so you actually will be more productive and your income level may go up," IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told the AFP news agency.

The impact is expected to be different in the developing world, with 40% of jobs in emerging markets set to be impacted and 26% of jobs in low-income countries.

But while these labor markets are set to see a smaller initial impact from AI, they are also less likely to benefit from the increased productivity that AI promises.

"We must focus on helping low income countries in particular to move faster to be able to catch the opportunities that artificial intelligence will present," Georgieva told AFP.


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