[pjc50]

I'm not sure that people appreciate how even the highly technical white collar jobs have large social elements in them. You might be able to get the AI to write the code, but can you get it to attend the meetings?

And it's understanding what the right thing is to build that's the critical challenge in programming.

[Bakary]

What if you no longer need meetings? Take accounting software for instance. This function will probably go from an entire team of accountants to one of the C-levels just triggering the right software at the right time as part of their normal duties.

[pjc50]

Think about why this isn't the case already? What specific capabilities does AI introduce to accounting?

[Bakary]

The software just isn't there yet, but we have some inkling of what might be possible in just a few years. Perhaps a closer analogy would be human computers. You would have meetings with them back in the day to set out calculation tasks, but now they are so reduced away that their existence is in itself something that has been forgotten by most. Employees just perform the duties of the human computer throughout the course of their day without even thinking that they replaced what used to be an independent function.

[WeylandYutani]

True but that won't save men. Already women are better suited for jobs that involve communication and empathy. I was in a hospital last week: almost a full female staff.

[pjc50]

Humans are famously unable to adapt to changes in their environment.