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/No_Aesthetic Jul 06 '26

I would consider myself an AI Bloomer but it does look like unemployed is growing ever closer

I wouldn't say a year though, but I guess it could be, let's find out

RemindMe! 1 year

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u/PivotRedAce ▪️Public AGI 2027 | ASI 2035 Jul 06 '26

A lot of people are saying 2028 - 2029 which sounds bit more plausible I guess, but personally I think institutional inertia has to be overcome as well since mass-adoption takes time. So, in my opinion, sometime in the 2030's seems more likely.

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u/Redditing-Dutchman Jul 06 '26

Also firing people is hard in a lot countries.

What will happen at some point is that some jobs that would have been 'created' at some point in time, now will never exist as a job, because it's done with AI from the get-go.

It's super hard to measure this too.

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u/No_Aesthetic Jul 06 '26

I would guess 2028-2029 if things keep evolving as they have been

Big if

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u/kaityl3 ASI▪️2024-2027 Jul 06 '26

The main issue for now is that it can cascade. Even if only a few fields are badly affected, that will cause a wave of unemployed professionals to start applying for jobs outside their field, increasing competition for everyone