Unemployment Could Hit 95% Thanks to AI

[High3rEl3m3nt]

Kraken is correct. Something that we will start to see within our lifetimes easily. Medical field will hold up better than many other fields.

[Hoopsboy]

The people who should be worried are the uneducated and unskilled. Yes those are easy to replace and will be devalued. Wendy's, Jack in the Box and McDonald's won't need people that want 15 dollars an hour jobs, when a kiosk can replace these chuckleheads.
But if people will become knowledgable about what the future holds and train themselves in the areas that appear to necessary long term, then they will not have a problem.
As a teacher, I see kids that GRADUATE high school with NO MARKETABLE skills whatsoever (unless texting and watching youtube all day is a marketable skill). Whose fault is this? I guarantee that it is not schools, nor the teachers that work there. I will save my grand standing proclamation for another time, because I need to find a winner after thinking the Jets would show up last night at home.

Maybe Handicapping should be taught in schools

[gauchojake]

Humans are pretty creative and new industries will be created, employing the unemployable. Something like legal organ harvesting, DNA banks, etc. They will be like spare parts for the most advanced to use and dispose of...eventually. Anyway here's a good article/podcast about the implications of technology and how to address a living wage.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/

[High3rEl3m3nt]

The people who should be worried are the uneducated and unskilled. Yes those are easy to replace and will be devalued. Wendy's, Jack in the Box and McDonald's won't need people that want 15 dollars an hour jobs, when a kiosk can replace these chuckleheads.
But if people will become knowledgable about what the future holds and train themselves in the areas that appear to necessary long term, then they will not have a problem.
As a teacher, I see kids that GRADUATE high school with NO MARKETABLE skills whatsoever (unless texting and watching youtube all day is a marketable skill). Whose fault is this? I guarantee that it is not schools, nor the teachers that work there. I will save my grand standing proclamation for another time, because I need to find a winner after thinking the Jets would show up last night at home.

Maybe Handicapping should be taught in schools

Pretty good post.

The one thing that I am not sure about is the assumption that if these kids paid attention and did well in school, they'd walk away with marketable skills. Maybe high school has come a long ways since I graduated in the early 2000s, but I don't remember picking up any true marketable skills, with the exception of my being involved in DECA (high school marketing competition), which required us to manage a student store and work the cash register during our lunch breaks, among other things, such as developing our marketing projects for competition.

I don't think it's the teachers fault, but it certainly appears to be the fault of the curriculum that teachers have to teach.

[readytowinem]

As long as you have your assortment of dresses, wigs, makeup, nail polish, and your dikk sucking skills, you don't need to worry about the unemployment rates, Kraken.

TKO