You Must Be Kidding. This is Panglossian Nonsense
AI is and will be widely deployed and provide great efficiencies and cost savings. But those efficiencies and savings come at the expense of jobs. And the new job you tout are disproportionately lower paying and equally vulnerable to AI displacement. For example:
At best, the job and income situation ahead is more akin to the current so-called sharing economy and tech industry in general — only worse and accelerated. In the U.S., for example:
- Sharing — From 2005 to 2015 the number of workers in these service jobs increased from 10 to 15 percent of the workforce in 2015, or nearly 10 million people, which accounted for all the net new job growth during those 10 years.
- Tech — In 2014 the three biggest companies in Detroit and the three biggest in Silicon Valley had the same revenues, but the Valley companies had 10 times fewer employees.
You say, “…coming years will be full of surprises and unexpected turns, but it doesn’t mean the changes should be viewed as negative.” This sounds like politicians who say “trust us — don’t worry, be happy,” or that you are trying to sell your services (in which case you’ve lost credibility out of the gate).
The reason Trump won is that he lied to people who have already realized they’re economic situation is in freefall and stopped accepting what politicians are saying. We are at a historic moment in time and your comments, like Trump’s, are on the wrong side of history.
Real people need real solutions, not condescending and patronizing pap.
If you want to dig deeper into reality, my Medium publication, A Passion to Evolve, has a number of articles explaining what’s happening. For example:
Our Twilight Zone & What Comes Next
Capitalism and Post-Capitalism — The Whole Truth & Nothing But
Funny Thing about Money and Machines
Macroscopic Evolutionary Paradigm
Doc Huston
