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

AI is the popular cover excuse for layoffs.

I can’t think of a single job that modern AI could easily replace.

I can think of a handful of people I work with who could be replaced by LLM. The hallucinations would be less frequent than the screw-ups the current humans make.

It could at least consolidate 5 of those people into 1 with increased efficiency.

I could consolidate those 5 with a trained chimp, but it wouldnt mean that chimps are about to overthrow mankind.

If general government policies adapted to a world with less available jobs, it wouldn't be an issue.

As it stands, our governments are continuing on as normal despite the introduction of a technology which has the capability to erase an enormous amount of jobs from the pool (certainly many standard office jobs).

A world with less work and no general change in policy (no UBI or similar scheme) is a world with more unemployed people, falling living standards, more crime, and more instability.