Raw LLM Responses

I can speak from experience working as a programmer in the corporate world. One day you sit down and think about all the jobs you yourself personally have ended. My professor told my class long ago "in this field your job is to replace humans". He was ultimately right. My worth in the corporate world is purely based on this quote by him. A healthcare company wanted us to automate paying health incentives. Now the company doesn't need that person. The role was removed and those workers were forced to do something else. My company wanted to reduce the amount of recruiters needed. Tasked as a lead on the team we accomplished this with automated recruiting. 100+ workers lost their job over the course of a few months. A select few were kept and promoted to other positions or oversee that the program works as expected. The amount of layoffs was large enough to make the news in my city. This problem you are referring to with AI and automated work has and probably will always exist in some form. To indulge on this though I believe current technology poses the threat at a greater rate. To elaborate. Technology is growing very quickly. Thus the rate of replacing workers has also gained speed. Companies are learning investing in technology is costly but pays off largely if you can automate and replace your employees. What are these employees replaced to do? Go get a new job right? But where and what in? Many new jobs are starting to require some sort of higher education. Is it worth the debt to learn a new trade? If you are supporting a family do you even have the time needed in order to learn a new trade? What happens to those displaced workers? Automated cars are coming, so will automated truck drivers. What will the 40 year old truck driver who gets replaced do? I am sure America has quite a few of those. Yes we have been faced with this problem since the beginning of time, but now at an expedited rate. I am just one programmer personally responsible for the cause of