[rabbits77]

the point was that largely those two of the seven you mentioned are already long gone. the five remaining are probably fine.

those unfortunate two lost their jobs 10 years ago to existing automation and process improvements.

call centers, it could be noted, are already ahead of the curve in terms of cost pressures on a business: human wages in India and the Philippines will not grow faster than what an AI company will want to charge to validate their absurd ($100 billion? $3 trillion?) valuation.

yeah, it’s cynical sounding, but the truth is that exploiting humans will continue to be cheaper than paying for humanless tech for a lot of these supposed AI use cases.

AI also needs to compete with the previous decades’ main cost cutting measure of offshore business process outsourcing.