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by welshwelsh 1150 days ago
This comes off as incredibly passive. You are in control of how you use and adapt to AI.

>if AI takes my job

AI is not going to take anyone's job. People using AI will take jobs from people who don't use AI.

>What happens to the doctors

That's completely up to them. Some will use AI to research new treatments, to assist with their daily workload, or even to treat patients.

Some doctors will stick their head in the sand and refuse to work with the new technology. They might lose their jobs if they can't compete with AI-assisted doctors, and it will be entirely their fault.
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anonzzzies 1150 days ago
> AI is not going to take anyone's job. People using AI will take jobs from people who don't use AI.

If your boss fires you because your colleague uses AI sooner or better than you, sure, AI didn’t take your job, but what’s the distinction? If you are in a team of 10 translators and 9 get fired overnight, I would say AI took their jobs. Which is happening.

Also, this is probably shortsighted; when going forward, it will be possible for a manager/hr to chuck a resume and typical tasks into an AI and ask it if it can do it or they should hire a human. Now the AI will lie it can do it, but a lot of work goes into making that better and the execution of the provided tasks for the job will show if it’s lying.

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tshaddox 1150 days ago
> People using AI will take jobs from people who don't use AI.

Not really sure what point you’re making though. This almost makes it sounds like you want the reader to conclude that it’s going to be a one-for-one trade, but the whole concern is that it won’t be. If your manager uses AI to replace the job of you and 9 other people on your team, I think it’s a bit silly to say “don’t worry, AI didn’t take your job, a person using AI just took the jobs of 10 people not using AI.”

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Riverheart 1150 days ago
“AI is not going to take anyone's job. People using AI will take jobs from people who don't use AI.”

An incredible distinction on the level of “guns don’t kill people, people with guns kill people”. The difference is practically meaningless. By your logic, if everybody uses AI then no one loses their job but that’s not how productivity gains work is it?

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