“People used to say that the robots are going to destroy skilled labor. Well, not really. I haven’t seen any plumbing robots. I haven’t seen any electrician robots. And I don’t think we’re going to see any artificial intelligence in the skilled trades to that degree. You can’t stop it. All you can do is decide to freak out completely or not.”
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A Goldman Sachs study found that several industries had relatively little exposure to automation by AI technologies, including cleaning; installation, maintenance and repair; construction and extraction; production; and transportation moving. Each had over half of their tasks viewed as not being automatable with AI largely serving as a complementary tool for the remainder of those tasks.
For years, white collar economists with tenured, guaranteed for life jobs, support offshoring U.S. manufacturing (blue collar jobs) and importing workers from abroad.
Now the tables have turned – AI looks likely to eliminate much of the work done by white collar workers – he in the past were telling blue collar workers who lost their jobs to “Learn to code”. Except it now appears that AI can write very decent software ….
