Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI

yarapavan

Archive copy: https://archive.ph/SY91j

cesarrg

Interesting counter-intuitive tip on WFH. The study called out looks more like a co-relation and not a causation.

downbad_

Make yourself indispensable.

keiferski

The easiest thing IMO is probably to just pick a career path that isn’t reducible to a person doing something on a computer. If I were 20 again and picking future-proof careers, personally I think I’d go into sailing / ships or become a chef. Neither are easy jobs and the income is less than working in tech, but I don’t see Claude replacing ship captains or head chefs anytime in the next fifty years.

markus_zhang

Or you can build your own business, at least you are the owner so it’s kinda hard to layoff yourself unless willingly.

igor_mart

Andrej Karpathy said once, that ..”ultimately, everything is automatable”, and as for me - it’s very likely. So I choose principle three: be proficient with AI tools.

fzeroracer

This article is hot garbage going over some of the 'principals' they list. > This is a more general version of the healthcare point. AI will generate so many new ideas and hypotheses, including for drugs and medical devices, but not only. Become a tester. Test new battery designs, new educational techniques, or new methods of conserving valued wildlife. Like what the hell does this passage even mean ? We're six years into the increasing AI psychosis among companies and you would think if it was good for ideas and hypothesis we would see them by now. Instead what we see is something incredibly incestuous as AI nonsense infects every sector whether or not it's actually needed. And in the realm where creativity flourishes I can't think of a single game that actively benefitted from the usage of AI.

RetroTechie

# In many situations, people prefer to deal with other humans . Just because we're social animals, and a machine isn't it. Sure, jobs may still be cut in such sectors. But people won't be automated away there. Just roles changing. # I'm sure we'll find many 'niches' where AI powered robots or humanoids could replace humans, but it's just not effective. Or desired. Or fun. Soccer-playing humanoids, anyone? I suspect the novelty will quickly wear off. # Society will have to redefine the meaning of "job" in relation to "obtain basic necessities for life". Throughout history & across the world, these 2 are strongly coupled. But going forward, it may be wise to loosen that coupling. Think UBI and the like. The robots are there to serve us!