Will AI Be Good or Bad for Humanity?
Will AI Be Good or Bad for Humanity?
The current market and economy have many people fearful of new advancements in tech and artificial intelligence. However, some say artificial intelligence will create more jobs. I decided to step back and look at history to see how the world has responded before.
In the past, whenever a new advancement came about, whether it was growing crops by hand or using a machine to crop the field for farmers, people were often wary that jobs might be reduced. The same pattern appeared with silent movies, phones, and even the internet. From where I sit, people seem to be divided and rarely agree.
The rise of tech in recent years is something I think is more of a concern, with the rise of AI and how fast tech has changed since I was a kid. Will the current technology be too much for people to actually keep up with and learn? I’m a young millennial, and while I don’t like to admit it, the speed and growth of technology has made it harder to keep up with different changes in how some systems work, especially phones and laptops. If you are reading this and haven’t tried using the accessibility settings on your phone or laptop, you are actually missing out on some technological know-how. Remember the movies with Iron Man using gestures with his hand and body. Your phone and laptop can actually be used in this way as well.
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Getting back on topic, research from MIT shows that while technological advancements have decreased jobs in the past, it has also helped create even more jobs (news.mit). The issue I see is that while newer technical jobs will be created, what will happen to those whose personality and disposition don’t truly fit in the technical landscape, making it harder for them to grasp the concepts of new tech? The study by researchers at MIT found that 60 percent of jobs in the United States from 1980–2018 represent new work. The overall consensus, however, was that the research suggested a negative effect on employment through automation and that the effect was twice as great in 1980–2018 compared to the time period in 1940–1980.
Another article from The Digest suggests that most people, whether they have a job or not, are looking for jobs online instead of the usual walk-in and hand in a resume. The article suggests that the internet and computers helped to boost wages and help with working hours. (digest)Unions are also able to utilize the web to help others in the union garner better wages and benefits even if the company the employee was hired at doesn’t have a lot of union members.
Change in life is almost always inevitable, whether it’s how you used to dress or who your friends are, and sometimes hobbies as well. When it comes to those changes in life, though, the changes tend to take more time, sometimes a few years or more. Recent technology supersedes that with newer advances that seem somewhat too fast; even some of the AI giants, like Anthropic, have said AI needs to slow down. More so than not, AI even goes past what I call the four-year change. The four-year period is basically how it sounds. Every four years someone graduates from school. Someone gains notoriety in a field, and someone moves away. All of these changes typically, for better or worse, occur within a four-year period. If I’m wrong compared to what you have knowledge of, correct me, but in the United States this is almost always a four-year change. Having technology that only takes a day to change its function and algorithm or method of working is something I would call both deleterious and unsatisfactory.
From cfr.org, technological advancements can alter and replace jobs that people once had. That being said, advancements in tech such as self-driving electric vehicles are actually increasing blue-collar jobs for those who understand the complexity of the vehicles. There are two sides to the technological advancements, though, as some advancements are in increasing and developing rapid newer technologies. The other side is that there has been a decrease in certain scientific fields and studies that are not widely considered important to the United States’ capacity. Findings from CFR also suggest that people will need to study for newer, evolving jobs and that employers will need to find a way not only to attract new talent but help develop and grow new talents in technological fields (cfr.org).
Do you think ai will be good or bad for the economy in the future? What new jobs do you think ai will create? I think one job will be called a netrunner. For creative blogs, short stories, fiction novels and music click here to visit my website reddragonfiction.com. “The dragon doesn’t roar to be heard, it waits until the silence makes you listen.”
Sources: https://www.cfr.org/task-force-reports/work-ahead/findings, https://www.nber.org/digest/apr03/internet-changes-labor-market?page=1&perPage=50, https://news.mit.edu/2024/does-technology-help-or-hurt-employment-0401
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