Expert reveals worrying truth behind jobs being taken away from people by AI

“Is this AI?” ‘Ai slop.” “Try hiring people instead of just using AI.”

It’s become the go to slam now whenever people aren’t impressed with things; blame artificial intelligence. I mean, that’s of course forgetting that human error does actually exist

But the reality is that AI is creeping more and more into our norms each day and there’s constantly that looming fear of jobs being replaced by the technology.

AI companies have even listed the jobs and employees that are apparently most at risk of this as the capabilities continue to grow. And Bill Gates himself has claimed that only three types of jobs would be safe in the future.

He suggested that coders, biologists and energy workers could rest easy, but Karen Hao has given her take on the conversation.

An award-winning investigative journalist, she is known to be an AI expert and recently spoke about the worrying reality of AI taking our jobs.

She explained how AI both creates and cuts jobs. (Getty Stock Image)

Hao appeared on The Diary of a CEO podcast earlier this week as they discussed: “Which jobs actually survive AI and who gets left behind?”

The pair looked at AI company Anthropic’s report about those at risk and she pointed out a part that may often be overlooked in that people do want ‘human experiences’ as well.

“So it’s not actually just about the capabilities of the models, it’s also about what people want,” Hao explained. “Some things they would turn to AI for and some things they wouldn’t – irrespective of whether or not AI is capable of doing it.

“But because of a preference that they want human-to-human interaction.”

Hao claimed that with each wave ‘of automation’, there may be a ‘bunch of entry-level work’ that gets ‘automated away’ but there are also new jobs created too.

“The jobs that are created are in one of two categories,” she said.

“There are people that get even higher skilled jobs… and there’s also the people who get way worse jobs.”

Essentially, some people may get laid off and hired elsewhere to ‘train the models on the very job that they were just laid off in’.

In terms of the conversations of ‘mass employment’, Hao added: “I think a lot of these narratives rarely talk about, first of all, ‘Why are some jobs go away?’

“It’s not just because of the model capabilities, it’s also because of executive choices and because of the rhetoric that they use if they want to just downsize.

“But the other thing that is rarely talked about is a lot of the jobs that are created are way wose than the jobs that were there and it breaks the career ladder.

“So, it’s the entry-level and the mid-tier jobs that get gouged out. It’s higher order jobs and then way more lower order jobs that get created. And so, how do people continue to progress in their careers? There’s no more rungs on the ladder.”

But while that might be pretty worrying, Hao and host Steven Bartlett agree on the importance that we ‘need connection’ and we ‘need relationships’.