Zero real world, specific examples. Just high level numbers and speculation.
AI is actually creating a high number of jobs for consultants and other attention grabbing based professions.
These are specific enough to be credible. If you talk to leaders in customer service / call center operations, they've been planning this for years.
Is this creating some new AI jobs? Sure. But that's a separate issue because peopel who are getting laid off aren't the ones taking up those new jobs.
The layoff has been happening.
Over 240 workers in a call center were laid off this week in KB Bank (a Korean bank) because AI-based consultation tool reduced call center volume by 20%.
Plenty of real life examples happening across the globe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/03/ai-cust...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taki...
Right, but I think maybe a lot of the backlash against AI is that no one feels bad or even has much sympathy for these folks. They get to eat, and they’re eating really well. I think people are a little more worried about the Joe and Jane’s who don’t carry computer science degrees.
Or maybe... could these people possibly have been [insert fad here] consultants for years beforehand, and therefore no significant net new jobs have been created so far?
You do realize some of the most useful BLS and Fed data is little more than surveying some people and asking for their opinions right?
The vast majority of everything we as SW designers do is developed by surveying some users and asking opinions? What do you think user surveys and UX panels that drive so much of SW design is?
It’s a completely legitimate way to get information about something. Like all forms of data it has its benefits and its downsides.
It's CNBC, can't expect much better from them