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AI will generate new jobs. At the same time, many jobs would gradually seize to exist.

We are experiencing a revolution for sure. An industrial revolution kind of. Some jobs chopped off, some added

Will AI generate new jobs? I can’t really imagine what those new jobs would be. The seem to be more like the popularity of automatic forums in medical settings: they made it so doctors didn’t need to hire a person to do all their paperwork for them, but it burdens them to do all their own paperwork.

I'm no expert in this area. Trying to co- relate. Industrial revolution, though replaced many manual labour jobs- ended up generating new jobs. Job of creating machines.

Will something of that sort not happen with AI? There could be new professions created all together

Like prompt engineering we see today, didn't exist few years ago

"AI therapist" certainly seems like a new job that will see plenty of demand in the future, if Bing Chat is any indication.

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