This line of worry has never panned out. There are two points:
1) AI/automation will replace jobs. This is 100% certain in some cases. Look at the industrial revolution.
2) AI/automation will increase unemployment. This has never happened and it's doubtful it will ever happen.
The reason is that humans always adapt and find ways to be helpful that automation can't do. That is why after 250 years after the industrial revolution started, we still have single-digit unemployment.
> 2) AI/automation will increase unemployment. This has never happened and it's doubtful it will ever happen.
> The reason is that humans always adapt and find ways to be helpful that automation can't do. That is why after 250 years after the industrial revolution started, we still have single-digit unemployment.
Horses, for thousand of years, were very useful to humans. Even with the various technological advances through that time their "unemployment" was very low. Until the invention and perfection of internal combustion engines.
To say that it is doubtful that it will ever happen to us is basically saying that human cognitive and/or physical capabilities are without bounds and that there is some reason that with our unbounded cognitive capabilities we will never be able to create a machine that could replicate those capabilities. That is a ridiculous claim.
1) AI/automation will replace jobs. This is 100% certain in some cases. Look at the industrial revolution.
2) AI/automation will increase unemployment. This has never happened and it's doubtful it will ever happen.
The reason is that humans always adapt and find ways to be helpful that automation can't do. That is why after 250 years after the industrial revolution started, we still have single-digit unemployment.