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AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

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440 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ArtTimeInvestor ◴[28 Aug 25 15:06 UTC] No.45053123[source]▶
Every day when I am out in the city, I am amazed by how many jobs we have NOT managed to replace with AI yet.

For example, cashiers. There are still many people spending their lives dragging items over a scanner, reading a number from a screen, holding out their hand for the customer to put money in, and then sorting the coins into boxes.

How hard can it be to automate that?

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renewiltord ◴[28 Aug 25 21:33 UTC] No.45057295[source]▶
Pharmacists are my favourite. They're a human vending machine that is bad at counting and reading. But law protects them. Pretty good regulatory capture.
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deathanatos ◴[28 Aug 25 22:14 UTC] No.45057651[source]▶
Pharmacists are a fantastic example. My pharmacy is delivered my prescription by computer. They text me, by computer, when it's ready to pick up. I drive over there … and it isn't ready, and I have to loiter for 15 minutes.

Also, after the prescription ends, they're still filling it. I just never pick it up. The autonomous flow has no ability to handle this situation, so now I get a monthly text that my prescription is ready. The actual support line is literally unmanned, and messages given it are piped to /dev/null.

The existing automation is hot garbage. But C-suite would have me believe our Lord & Savior, AI, will fix it all.

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1. renewiltord ◴[29 Aug 25 00:43 UTC] No.45058680[source]▶
The only way AI could fix this if it said "replace the pharmacist with a vending machine and hire a $150k junior engineer to make sure the DB is updated afterwards", which you never know, Claude Opus 4 might suggest. At that point, we'll know AGI has been achieved.