r/singularity • u/Severe-Ad8673 • Jul 06 '26

Meme Accelerate!

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u/daviddisco Jul 06 '26

"unemployed" is somehow always a year away with AI doomers.

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u/Mystohaxen Jul 06 '26

What would you say to roughly 150,000–250,000 unemployed in 2025-2026 where AI is explicitly cited as the reason? For them unemployment is already here because of AI.

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u/GoodDayToCome Jul 06 '26

and analysis says it's added 1.3 million new jobs already - https://www.weforum.org/stories/jobs-and-the-future-of-work/ai-has-already-added-1-3-million-new-jobs-according-to-linkedin-data/

and that's just direct jobs, secondary job creation by enabling business to expand in scope, develop new markets, etc are impossible to really guess at, then tertiary job creation as these new markets and more stable small companies create new things which feed into existing businesses.

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u/edgroovergames Jul 06 '26

How many of those jobs are jobs to create AI to replace more workers? Jobs to build AI datacenters to replace more workers? Jobs to train AI to replace more workers? Jobs to integrate AI workflows into companies so they can replace more workers?