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And I dint see why ai wouldn't cause loss of blue collar jobs too

I play guitar but can't use it
Lawyers and computers are making modern music
I have a song but can't sing it
It tells the truth but promoters won't believe it

Good people will do good things, bad people will do bad things, and lazy people will do lazy things using A.I.. The only productive response is for good people to do good things with it to counter.

I worked in mainframe computers for 37 years. I started in an entry level position in 1979. When DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 came along it left a bunch of mainframe people behind. The rest of us adapted. We learned a new skill: how to work with the new technology. By 2008 I was the smartest "fix it" guy in the room at a large manufacturer with the second largest set of mainframes in the world. By 2010 I was unemployed.
We had become extremely efficient. The company started to implement a script process, so that anyone could do what I did with no real training. After a year of unemployment I accepted a $30k a year pay cut to work for the company everything was outsourced to. After 5 years the automation caught up again and at the age of 55 I became a professional musician.

I don't say all this to whine. I hold no grudges. Everything the company did made great sense. It had a horrible effect on a lot of my co-workers. They expected to retire after 40 years of good pay.
The reason I say this is that AI will cause a whole bunch of people to change jobs. Some will be extremely upset at losing a great position. Some will have to start thinking about a different career path. or career starting place.
either way, it has happened before and it will happen again.
There are very few typesetters in newspaper printing now.
There are very few buggy whip makers or cobblers or TV repairmen.

AI can do a lot.
It cannot look you in the eye as it plays a song onstage and forget the words with a self depreciating laugh.
It cannot look into your heart. It cannot feel, no matter how it may appear.

Well can't stop progress , AI is taking over everything. I gave up on the music business over the onslaught of AI . No one wants to hear a old man sing

Good thoughts. I think it can create alot of jobs too... But for older people they probably won't be able to adapt fast enough.

I can envision alot of , 40 ,50, ,60 year olds standing wondering what happened.

Certainly not new, tech has been replacing jobs for decades.

I just think it's too overpowering.

If ai can diagnose ones illness with precision, who needs a DR
Just bring the ai report to pharmacy get your pill.

I can envision traffic cops being gone. Ai won't miss a single violation and bring in huge money for state.

I can envision IT people being eliminated by ai, computers don't fall asleep or slack off hours a day

I can envision,Ai taxi drivers and bus drivers.

It's just the speed it will change might blow us away

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It will blind side a lot of people because of the speed of transition.
The speed is the real problem.
I remember in high school the debut of the ATM. My economics teacher said that none of our parents are going to use the technology because that kind of shift in thinking takes almost a generation.
My mother still writes checks in her 90's.
That means most people who are over 40 will not want this technology forced on them. Especially when they don't know that it's not coming - it's here, and it's moving faster that any of them are prepared for. It's the equivalent of taking the advancements of the last 200 years and introducing them in all in one year. So it would go from the telegraph to a zoom call. From black and white silent film to immersive virtual reality.
AI is a Connecticut Yankee and we are all King Arthur's court.

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