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A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs — and with unknown impact (www.cnbc.com)
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A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs — and with unknown impact::Technology has disrupted many workplaces. Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT may have an outsized impact on higher-paid office jobs, experts said.

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[–] joe 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Your cynicism isn't properly calibrated.

If you look at the viewpoint of a CEO, you'll see that they would be chomping at the bit to get rid of as many high paying technical or administrative roles as they can; it's not like that extra money is going to flow down the chain.

Now, if there were a threat of LLMs replacing a management position, that would be a different story.

Edit: Apparently my reading comprehension is what needs calibrating. Turns out I agree! My bad.

[–] xodoh74984 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what OP said. Unless there's an admin/IC role that pays $800k+/yr, in which case sign me up!

[–] joe 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, yes, I totally glossed over the number range; that's my bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know that they want to risk it getting that close. Once one BS high paying job gets eliminated the dominoes start falling, shareholders are champing at the bit to replace any and everything with bots and I think the riff raff will start rallying for them to get replaced as well - if all the actual work is being done by bots why tf does this asshole get to pull 7 figures to press enter on the LLM instead of automating it?