Rapid advancements in AI have industry and political leaders warning of massive job displacement for white-collar workers. It could reshape U.S. politics.
Blue-collar workers have been at the center of political messaging for years. Politicians meet with waitresses at a diner to pitch raising the minimum wage, tour a factory to spotlight job growth or tell stories of their family’s hardscrabble bona fides while visiting cities like Detroit or Pittsburgh.
Lately, though, a different group has been getting more attention: white-collar professionals. And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is at the forefront of this development.
The Republican governor expressed concern in August that “some of these white-collar jobs … could end up being obsolete” due to advancements in AI. In September, he said the H-1B visa program was “especially galling” at a time when AI “is forecast to reduce a significant number of white-collar jobs.” And in November, he worried about predictions that AI is “going to really undercut a lot of jobs — a lot of white-collar jobs.”
Other officials are sounding the alarm, too, including Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as well as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.
“AI” will 100% shit the bed if you try to use it as a replacement for workers. It gets shit wrong constantly and has severe limitations tech bros are lying their asses off about to get more money.
Sounds like a good replacement to workers for me /s
The workers can find new jobs in the lucrative field of unfucking everything AI fucked up!
I predict that AI will make so many mistakes that companies will have to hire at least three times the amount of humans they fired to correct all the AI mistakes.
Politicians meet with waitresses at a diner to pitch raising the minimum wage, tour a factory to spotlight job growth
Only during election year, otherwise it’s ‘fuck off’ to the entire working class
Something I noticed about a decade ago seems to still be true.
Automation saves money only if it’s good automation. And good automation, be it a physical machine or software, costs a lot of money.
LLM’s are the latest bad attempt at automation.
Politicians: SIGH …Yet another group of people to lie to for votes then do absofuckinglutly nothing for them when I get elected because I’m bought and paid for by AI companies along with every other major corporation in my district.
