For years we envisioned that AI robots would kill blue-collar jobs (assembly lines, warehouses, chauffering, cashiers).
Instead, in 2024 there is a massive labor shortage. In 2024 AI is actually killing office jobs. Warning signs abound for coders, paralegals, medical staff, admin jobs, and content creators. Klarna just announced that GPT is "doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time customer service agents," driving a projected $40 million of annual savings.
Hopefully, as we have seen with other revolutionary technologies in the long run, AI will spawn more jobs than it destroys.
