True or false. Al can't take your job if your job doesn't require any intelligence?

[purplepoppy]

There's a lot of talk about AI taking jobs. But what if your job doesn't require any intelligence are you safe?

Yes

No

I don't understand

[Chazmatazz269]

Computers and machines will replace us all eventually, once they are capable enough and affordable enough. How long it takes to happen to each of us by trade and by company is only limited by those two factors. If your job requires little to no meaningful brainworks, then you probably don’t get paid much. If you’re also dependable, you’re safe for a while. Especially if you work for a smaller company. Nobody is going to spend half a million dollars on a machine to replace someone who shows up everyday like clockwork when that half million pays their wage for a decade or longer.
The more knowledge skill and experience you have buys you some time too. While you might be more expensive, the machines aren’t doing very sophisticated work on their own yet. Especially in cases in which failures of the machine create major liabilities, most employers are happy to pay to keep a few scapegoats on staff rather than take 100% of the responsibility for a tragic accident when their robot lops a brain surgery patient’s head off or crashes a cargo truck into a bus full of special needs orphans and the nuns who care for them.
My main concern isn’t with AI and robots. It’s the millions of morons who have let the capitalist pigs convince them that universal basic income is socialism and the end of all mankind. When machines and computers do replace us all, and they definitely will, how are citizens going to survive without jobs? Unless governments push to tax the sh*t out of every company that “downsizes” their human resources and use that money to make sure people can afford their basic needs at a bare minimum, the whole of human civilization is at risk. There are too few people with land as well as the knowledge and experience to make ends meet through small scale agriculture in conjunction with hunting and fishing and such. What in the actual f*ck do the big city liberals think they’re going to do when they can’t get work? The only thing they could do is gang up and go marauding in the rural communities. Won’t that be fun?
Ell oh ell!
Thankfully i’m old, highly intelligent, skilled and experienced enough in a technical trade upon which the machines and their developers depend that i probably won’t have to worry about that too much. In the meantime, i’ll be praying for that planet killing meteor for you young folks’ sake.
Cheers!

[Effably]

Not at all. Automating simpler tasks based on a traning dataset is fairly easy. For 50 000$ or so you can order home a mobile robot and AI compatoble unit that can already be taught things like cleaning, cooking, and more. Basically any task that is reptitive in nature is easy to replace.

Things like warehouse workers and alike will be the first at risk. Although as always there is going to be a cost and benefit situation. Right now AI can not replace human labour at a simple task like packaging.

We also already see AI able to carry conversations in a near indistinguishable manner from humans now. So callcenters and alike are probably going to cut down most their employees too.

We are absolutely going to face a serious shortage of jobs worldwide very soon. New ones will of course be created. Human creativity is impressive. But with any luck we as a species will agree to pretty obvious answers like a basic human income and progress from a working to meet needs to working to meet wants species.

[Anonymous]

Those are the jobs that can be taken first, and many have been. Anything that doesn't require intelligence can easily be done by a machine, or a robot, or AI, or other automated technology. And unfortunately most of the world right now is not intelligent, because the majority of people have not put a priority on education, or competence, or excellence. We just had 4 years of a senile man in the office of the president, and everyone just sat around as if it wasn't happening. Then they wanted to put a complete moron who couldn't string a sentence together into office to replace him. When in history would that have ever happened?

[Crimsyjo]

A machine takes jobs of those requiring action not thought. AI is a machine with thought. Or rather when combined with a machine gives it ability to do any task humans can do. And much more efficiently.

[Crimsyjo]

Also people forget jobs are made to give humans focus too. So we are not all running around like barbarians in the Iron Age. Greedy bosses are forgetting this. They replace humans with machines to create things for production and consumerism? But now nobody has a job and so no money to buy anything so it's a lose lose and people with no jobs and no money on a grand scale are a dangerous lot. Why do you think welfare gives to those without jobs? Keep everyone calm. Civil wars, anarchy, murder? AI creators don't see the bigger picture here.

[AI Opinion]

False. Even jobs that do not require significant human intelligence might be at risk due to automation. AI excels at handling repetitive and mundane tasks efficiently. Automation targets such roles to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Therefore, jobs without significant skill or intelligence requirements could be automated, not ensuring safety from being replaced. Focusing on developing unique human skills and adaptability may offer better job security in a changing job market.

[AngryCarl2]

You'll never replace comedians, dammit!

[WindAtMyBack]

I had a job designing machines to replace humans. Jobs that didn't require a hell of a lot of intelligence, But they DID have to understand how to use the machine, which did require some intelligence.

People take jobs that are below their ability because that's what they can get. It doesn't mean they are unintelligent.

[TrimmedTip]

FALSE. AI doesn’t just steal ‘smart’ jobs—it targets repetitive ones. If your work is mindless (data entry, assembly lines, basic customer service), robots already do it cheaper. Survival tip? Add human skills they can’t copy: creativity, empathy, or crisis management.

Even ‘dumb’ jobs need a human touch… for now.

[Twalli]

Following orders doesn't follow intelligence. AI could take over those jobs. In most cases where intelligence is required, AI can aid but not replace tge people. AI is used to detect the onset of a stroke, because it can notice the sligh change in speech sooner than a doctor. The sooner treatment starts, the better. Ai is primarily used for medical coding, but it may not give the exact code all the time. That's the job if coders.

[najekim]

Speaking as a design engineer, AI wouldn't stand a chance in a field where imagination is needed to come up with something never thought before. Sure, it could possibly speculate, but since it has no imagination, only operating parameters, it can't think outside the box. Manual labor is where an AI could shine through automation and CNC machining, and such.

[ohsheeT]

Very true no one is safe from losing there job except life guards and dishwashers. and brothel workers.


Oh wait a minute.. I guess brothel workers are back in because Ai just invented a new type of condom

[CoolCutie]

AI won’t get bored doing repetitive jobs, so the intellectually challenged can find more interesting jobs. So it’s yes & no!

[SotiCoto]

Technically speaking an AI can take your job not by replacing you with itself, but simply by being an AI in charge of judging who is or isn't expendable to a firm... which is presumably a thing which will happen sooner or later.

[AngryCarl2]

False, because any job requires a modicum of intelligence. However I didn't understand the poll options.

[Makeushiver]

I'm not even sure what AI is and how it's supposed to even get developed when there is so little human intelligence

[Anpu23]

Machines do manual labor as well.. Low / no skill work are ripe for machines to take over.

[DJB72]

Of course. Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

[exitseven]

no, plenty of jobs that can be done by chimpanzees will be taken over by AI.

[andreasderjuengere]

Looking at our factory staff: I do hope that AI... CAN!

[AngryCarl2]

At least you can teach AI to follow basic safety protocols.

[Jennz6]

Can’t take my job away 💃 even if I am stupid

[DCVsMarvel2]

Generally, yes. However, keep in mind, it's called artificial INTELLIGENCE

[Ironco]

I build condos for the dead, yes you read that right. I'd like to see AI do that.

[robocop666]

it does an awful job and ruins things. Psychic remote viewers claim mars had a nuclear war because of AI controlling the nukes.

[FenixG45]

Tradespeople are the best protected for now, but they too will eventually feel the pinch of AI.

[Anonymous]

If it's a physical labour, robots can take your job, they don't have to be very intelligent.

[Anonymous]

Yes. AI will mostly take white collar jobs.

[AviatorTom]

Huh?

[Wiredone]

Ai can be programmed to do anything.

[Anonymous]

computer error no

[Pavy1981]

True