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First, let’s talk about job displacement. Because AI can outperform humans at
routine tasks—provided the task is in one domain with a lot of data—it is
technically capable of displacing hundreds of millions of white and blue
collar jobs in the next 15 years or so.
But not every job will be replaced by AI. In fact, four types of jobs are not at
risk at all. First, there are creative jobs. AI needs to be given a goal to
optimize. It cannot invent, like scientists, novelists and artists can. Second,
the complex, strategic jobs—executives, diplomats, economists—go well
Are you worried that these three types of jobs won’t employ as many people
as AI will displace? Not to worry, as the fourth type is much larger:
empathetic and compassionate jobs, such as teachers, nannies and doctors.
These jobs require compassion, trust and empathy—which AI does not have.
And even if AI tried to fake it, nobody would want a chatbot telling them
they have cancer, or a robot to babysit their children.
So there will still be jobs in the age of AI. The key then must be retraining
the workforce so people can do them. This must be the responsibility not just
of the government, which can provide subsidies, but also of corporations and
AI’s ultra-wealthy beneficiaries.
Finally, there are the issues of privacy, exacerbated bias and manipulation.
Sadly, we’ve already seen failures on this front; Facebook couldn’t resist the
temptation to use AI technology to optimize usage and profit, at the expense
of user privacy and fostering bias and division.
One thing we don’t have to worry about is the fevered warnings of utopians
and dystopians about AI making humans obsolete. The former predict we
shall be “assimilated” and evolve into human cyborgs; the latter warn of
world domination by robot overlords. Neither are showing much in the way of
actual intelligence about artificial intelligence.
Contact us at editors@time.com.
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