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the thing is , that "problem" is only affects reachest countries, the whole world will be doing what it is doing now for a while. it'll take some time before technology establishes itself and moves into poorer places. That will create a buffer for adjustment and will make the world as a whole a better for humans, just like other tech revolutions

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I disagree - at least for the near future. If companies stop outsourcing to poorer countries, they'll be hit now. If so many Americans lose their jobs that nobody has money to buy anything, that will affect poorer countries too. It's not the technology of AI that's necessarily causing the problems. It's the greed of all the shareholders and business owners laying off everybody in favor of automation. This has been building up for years - even before AI. The quest to replace human jobs with gig economy workers and automation is also a relevant factor.

I am not sure where that "Americans lose their jobs" claim is coming from, Job statistics are freely available, US has historical low unemployment now (for many reasons, but nevertheless) and all that doom and gloom about AI eats the world jobs has little support from data.

It comes from watching Linked In and talking to people in real life. Again, I don't think it's AI eating the jobs. I think it's greed that's eating jobs.

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