Trivial Pursuit? - Jobs In The Age Of AI

Much has been said about the AI displacing jobs, and between the doomssayers and the deniers, much continues to be said.

Artifical Intelligence is a tool. Like many before it, and others that will follow it. it will be used to build and to uplift, and by others to destroy. It will be weaoponised in many forms and that will inevitably cause additional misery for some humans somewhere. But, it will also be used to build things never before possible, to the benefit of the many.

Before we ask “How can we create more opportunities for people in the age of AI?”, let’s first ask “How can we create more opportunities?”

What are the components that need to be rethought of, which ones need tweaking, and which ones are missing?

Technology reduces barriers, and this leads to more entrants in to the marketplace, which creates various

Why do we work?

Is it purely to meet our needs?

Let’s consider everyone on the planet has security, a roof and 3 square meals. Does everyone call it a day and go fishing for the rest of their lives? No, that notion is absurd. We work because we have creative energy which requires expression, and curiousity that demands action; the power to imagine and the desire to pursue the fulfillment of that vision. It is this pursuit that yields what we call innovation.

Technology, a tool sometimes borne of necessity, but mostly of the human capacity to imagine, reduces barriers including those which limited entry to markets. People without the training to express their vision will find in it a potent engineer, artist, musician, composer, illustrator, coder or whatever. No, AI will not reduce jobs, it will 10x new businesses. It will proliferate and permeate into the lives of many as a teacher and a guide, and as a talented extension of their own mind.

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