Japanese company replaces office workers with artificial intelligence

I don't trust artificial intelligence at all.
Robots take everything literally, they could take over the world in order to give everybody life insurance...

To be honest OP, A.I. calculating payouts isn't really a massive step, I mean if robots can actually design the risk models underlying insurance policies of calculate the value of investments over what time period an insurance company needs then I would be impressed, but I do think you're getting a little ahead of yourself here.

To be honest OP, A.I. calculating payouts isn't really a massive step, I mean if robots can actually design the risk models underlying insurance policies of calculate the value of investments over what time period an insurance company needs then I would be impressed, but I do think you're getting a little ahead of yourself here.

Wasn't this one of the careers that some BBC article said had a high % predicted chance of being replaced by AI?

What profession, actuaries are pretty damn safe, accountants and underwriters not to such, but eventually everything will go, even jobs like doctors.

How will civilisation support itself with half the population out of work?

How will civilisation support itself with half the population out of work?

It's a trend that is going to continue. Computer Scientists and Philosophers have been predicting this for years now. I think it's pretty inevitable that we are about to undergo the biggest change in the structure of the labour market since the industrial revolution.



A universal wage is going to be absolutely necessary. Remember that these shifts in labour are not resulting in a reduction in economic output - more wealth is being created than before. The thing that is changing is wealth distribution, which is why new attitudes to wealth redistribution are going to be imperative.

It's a trend that is going to continue. Computer Scientists and Philosophers have been predicting this for years now. I think it's pretty inevitable that we are about to undergo the biggest change in the structure of the labour market since the industrial revolution.



A universal wage is going to be absolutely necessary. Remember that these shifts in labour are not resulting in a reduction in economic output - more wealth is being created than before. The thing that is changing is wealth distribution, which is why new attitudes to wealth redistribution are going to be imperative.

People will receive basic income, the elite will be made up of people who are either super creative or who have a significant investment portfolio and people will have to find meaning in their lives which does not rely on their occupation. I strongly dislike TRP, but the real reason for the rise in manosphere groups like this is the obsolescence of provider men in favour of ''Chads''. 50 years ago being stable and middle class meant you married well, as we approach a post scarcity world, being the stable option matters less when it comes to getting girls and this is what men are waking up to.

One of the biggest issues in Britain and America is this weird Protestant mindset that your job is what defines your value as a person and as technology advances so much so that even white collar intellectual jobs can be done both cheaper and to a higher standard by A.I. than by a human we will have to reassess our cultural mindset.

Even with a universal wage, that's not the main issue. It's boredom. For most men, going to work is what keeps them sane. I just can't imagine millions of people with nothing to do their entire lives. It could very well collapse from inside out. I wouldn't doubt the suicide rate skyrocketing particulary in men as the provider role will be completely gone.

Even with a universal wage, that's not the main issue. It's boredom. For most men, going to work is what keeps them sane. I just can't imagine millions of people with nothing to do their entire lives. It could very well collapse from inside out. I wouldn't doubt the suicide rate skyrocketing particulary in men as the provider role will be completely gone.

Even with a universal wage, that's not the main issue. It's boredom. For most men, going to work is what keeps them sane. I just can't imagine millions of people with nothing to do their entire lives. It could very well collapse from inside out. I wouldn't doubt the suicide rate skyrocketing particulary in men as the provider role will be completely gone.

You're correct that this is an issue, and it's precisely the reason why the media and people in general are still treating this as some kind of a quirky joke ("haha, robots are taking over the world" rather than taking it seriously. People are in absolute denial that their jobs could be displaced. However, I'm not really sure why you're calling this "weird" - I certainly feel absolutely horrified about the prospect that my chosen career path could be rendered totally redundant.

If we assume that these changes are going to be inevitable then yes, there is going to need to be a change in the cultural mindset. One problem though is that whilst the rise of AI is inevitable, civilization's ability to respond in a socially responsible manner most certainly is not. Unless some pretty serious international structures are put in place to redistribute wealth, the rise of AI is going to be accompanied by the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of the global technocratic elite. And given the fact that in the current global climate any kind of reference to wealth distribution seems to initiate some kind of a McCarthian response, I'm seriously concerned about this.

People always assume that the trajectory of human development is positive. I think that is a very questionable assumption, particularly given the talks I've been to at the Future of Humanity Institute.

It's a worry (although I don't know why you're talking about men, this is not a gender issue), but I don't think this is as big an issue as wealth redistribution. At a talk I went to on this topic, they made the prediction that whilst these changes would be accompanied by an increase in free time (which is not a bad thing), it would be accompanied by a shift towards new sectors such as the voluntary sector or the creative sector. Of course though, this would be pretty bad for the uneducated.