Quarter of Workers Under 35 Expect AI To Take Their Jobs Within Two Years, Deutsche Bank Survey Finds
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Americans show greater concern than Europeans across all time periods, scoring roughly five percentage points higher. The survey also revealed major differences in AI adoption patterns. The US leads workplace adoption at 56%, while Spain shows the highest home adoption at 68% over three months. Germany and the UK demonstrate contrasting behaviors -- both countries report similar home usage above 50%, but workplace adoption differs significantly at 41% for Germany versus 5% for the UK. Training gaps persist across regions. Only one in four European respondents has received AI training at work compared to nearly one in three Americans, though 52% of Europeans and 54% of Americans want employer-led AI training.
Need to add a consumer feature to AI (Score:3)
I mean once the take the jobs, they better become good little consumers and have wants and needs to buy things to keep our economy going since humans won't have any ability to purchase anything anymore.
I hear electricity is a premium these days. Maybe the AI should start by paying for that since they consume so much of it.
Billionaires don't need an economy (Score:2)
They own everything. Just like how the king owned everything.
The king needed a handful of thugs to keep the peasants in line and that's it.
The king occasionally needed to raise an army but these days would modern military weapons you don't really need to do that. And that's before we talk about autonomous drones.
People do not understand what's happening because it's so far outside the realm of day-to-day living for anyone that works. We are going back to feudalism but with enough technology that
Why older workers aren't worried (Score:3)
My guess is that older workers aren't too worried because we have enough experience to recognize the hype when we see it, and the experience to see how badly it does overall (it helps in some small instances, but overall not that much). I don't see 2 years as bringing enough difference to matter unless the AI bros come up with a new way. The last reason is because we recognize we're about to age out and so it won't have an affect on us in the long term.
I just need to hang on for 5-8 years and then I'm out of the software work force ... unless I want to volunteer for my favorite OSS project.
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35+ will have seen a lot more "analog" tech that went poof and yet everyone still has a job.
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Some of that is survivorship bias though. Current workers are the people who didn't lose a job to previous hype waves or actual changing market conditions. The ones that didn't make it could be addicted to OxyContin for all we know. Some of them certainly turned out that way.
I think a lot of the concern is misplaced. I don't see my job being replaced in two years and even ten seems unlikely. The flip side is that if it can be replaced by AI, there're a lot of other jobs that got replaced before or alongs
Because entry level jobs go first (Score:2)
And because we are too dumb to realize that we can be replaced by somebody half our age for 1/3 to pay and our boss will deal with the loss of productivity in exchange for the savings on labor.
Especially if you're an older American you had American exceptionalism drilled into your skull and so you think you're a precious little snowflake that can't possibly be replaced. Heck you don't even think that you feel it on a base level.
You also really really really hate having that pointed out so, well I me
Maybe everyone under 35 (Score:2)
Should stop drinking the AI coolaid. AI is not a complete solution for job replacement. Yes there will be a lot of jobs replaced. If you are working at a call center or paper pushing, maybe even some aspects of accounting and coding can be replaced. But AI is not going to bake your cake and eat it too. It's going to get most of the ingredients together for you and then you get to mix it.
Right now we are in a period where the realities of AI have not set in, once those set in and the AI bubble pops, it will
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Nobody can really predict what will happen from here.
Most people circa 1995 wouldn't have imagined that home phones would go away. Cell phones seemed obvious at that point, but basically ALL phones everywhere AND payphones all just being poofed by 20-30 years later? Seemed impossible, but even my rice farmer FIL who really only has a single rice tractor has a cell phone and no house phone. Even had me run an electric outlet 200m so he could have electricity in the barn for a phone charger.
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> Should stop drinking the AI coolaid. AI is not a complete solution for job replacement. Yes there will be a lot of jobs replaced. If you are working at a call center or paper pushing, maybe even some aspects of accounting and coding can be replaced. But AI is not going to bake your cake and eat it too. It's going to get most of the ingredients together for you and then you get to mix it.
Along with toothpaste and glue.
The biggest difference seems to be that the young folks are impressed with AI because it can do a lot of things some of the time, just like an inexperienced person. They put up with mistakes from AI because they're used to a certain level of errors in their work.
The older folks are unimpressed with AI because, unlike their juniors, whom they put up with because because they know that they are teachable, AI isn't teachable, so they have no real use for it. And they aren't too
Meanwhile, in the older worker section.. (Score:2)
Meanwhile, the older workers are frankly very concerned about what wishy-washy easy-to-impressed Upper Management will use AI for. What insane, implausible, improbable, impractical-to-implement nutcase ideas will they come to us with next?
With all the hallucinations and such, I can't expect much sanity from the C*O offices for the next decade or so.
If AI can replace you the jobs not worth having. (Score:2)
If an algorithm that does a lot of fast math and pattern recognition to spew out the crap that we all see being made by AI then your job was just Capitalist busy work, and you didn't really produce anything meaningful that you could take pride in.
You'd be better off as janitor.
I am.
Ai can't do what I do! (Score:5, Funny)
AI sucks at stealing office supplies and reading slashdot when it's supposed to be working!
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Ah yes. But can you steal all of Slashdot? And Wikipedia. And Reddit. And Twitter. And
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What's the difference between having access (manual) and having access (agentic)? Probably just ads, dark UI patterns and more spam to wade through.
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> AI sucks at stealing office supplies and reading slashdot when it's supposed to be working!
LLM "AI" is an expert joule thief. It also gets paid to read Reddit and whatever 4chan is.
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I'll give you the office supplies, but I guarantee you that AI is scraping slashdot.