"With so much AI buzz coursing through the air these days, there are plenty of sensationalist claims about the tech's affect on the job market. One prevailing narrative - and arguably the driving financial incentive behind AI - is that AI is set to automate everyone's jobs, or at least a huge portion of them. Whether that would be for better or worse is another question, as scholars have observed that mass joblessness combined with monopoly capitalism isn't exactly a recipe for utopia."
"At the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington DC this week, Huang said that "everyone's jobs will be different" as AI ushers in a wave of new business concepts and projects. "If your life becomes more productive and if the things that you're doing with great difficulty become simpler, it is very likely because you have so many ideas you'll have more time to pursue things," the CEO suggested."
AI narratives range from automation causing mass job loss to creating unprecedented prosperity. Tech leaders predict changes to work: some foresee more leisure while others foresee increased productive output and more work opportunities. Jensen Huang predicts jobs will be different, enabling people to pursue more ideas as tasks become easier and productivity increases, citing radiologists processing more scans. Increased radiology workloads may reflect a shortage of trained specialists and represent commercial incentives for private AI firms. Elon Musk suggested work could become optional, comparable to sports or video games. Tension persists between automation-driven profits and potential social harms like unemployment concentrated by monopoly capitalism.
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