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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 OP 4h \ parent \ on: Many people now think that AI is a mortal threat to jobs - are they right? econ
It's interesting to remember that something like "being good at arithmetic" WAS actually a marketable skill years ago.
Now it isn't, of course.
It would be interesting to see how the job market changed with the advent of personal computing - when computers got cheap enough that most people and certainly all businesses could afford one. Were there people back then, very worried about how computers would replace them?
I imagine there were, but I don't really remember that. I think there was a big push to retrain laid-off factory workers as IT people, but I think that didn't work at all.
I'm not old enough to remember it first hand, but I have heard people saying the conversation and concerns were similar to today with AI.
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