How AI Is Already Reshaping White-Collar Work | WSJ 

This entire video could have been written by AI for all we know.

When a CEO says they're not do doing any layoffs, they will be laying off people.

People seem to fall into two categories. Those who underestimate AI because they don't understand it. And those who over-estimate AI because they don't understand it.

replace politicians with AI

Andrew Yang warned us about this years ago, and people laughed at him

I know my job as a composer will probably be replaced by ai, but I find it bittersweet (I know I am not allowed to think that way) that AI is also coming for the people that rejected my work because they rather used stock music (because it's cheaper, eventually) instead of a hand crafted original motion soundtrack. But as I said for so many times: true quality will always prevail...

AI spits out scripts in 10 minutes and CGI fills in the action and talent. Can't stop progress.

If AI can do anything about the narrator's vocal fry, i'm all for it

Annoys me so much that huge companies could *easily* use the extra resources that AI frees up from repetitive tasks to improve their products and systems… cybersecurity, ui/ux, customer service, etc, all areas most companies are already lacking in, but no… just fire workers and pocket the change. Imo might help if governments would give tax breaks to companies that are committed to generating jobs in the wake of AI, and slap more tax on those that are stripping their workforce while still generating record profits…

The genie is out the bottle.

We need to really have a conversation about UBI now.

Why isn't AI replacing CEOs?

This is a good time to restart the conversation around taxing businesses to fund universal basic income. If people aren’t paid because robots do work, the economy can’t function.

Its already happening. I was forced to retire 2 years ago because my telecommunications job was switched from internal engineering database recordkeeping to customer service to teach customers how to use their website for their issues. Hence, helping the public learn to do our jobs with A.I. chat so we wouldn't have jobs. My daughter just resigned because of the same thing. She was customer service loyalty representative and her company switched her over to mandatory sales. The commonality for us...union jobs. That's right, A.I. was designed to eliminate white collar AND union jobs.

Things are getting weird

AI is very limited currently and crazy expensive for the good stuff. Currently, artificial intelligence (AI) does not possess true intelligence as it lacks the ability to think critically and creatively like humans. While AI can perform complex calculations and learn from data patterns, it is limited by its programming and lack of emotional intelligence. True intelligence requires consciousness, self-awareness, and the ability to make decisions based on intuition and experience - all qualities that are uniquely human. As technology advances, AI may become more sophisticated, but for now, it remains a tool designed to assist humans in specific tasks rather than an independent thinker.

How do i know that the only job AI won't replace is CEO and Board Member.

The chicken at 1:11 looks exactly like my profile picture. What on earth.

The funniest thing so far is someone using ai writing emails and another person summarizing it with another ai…I trust humans can be replicated in this process 😂

How does an economy work when we all workers have been replaced? Does money even matter? How do you compensate a bot? What happens when the AI goes on strike or doesn’t want to work anymore? When it becomes smart enough where it doesn’t want or need a job. Will it have rights and be able to vote?

I think it’s pretty clear that AI should be used to level the playing field between employer and employee. If AI is gonna replace workers then it should replace the bosses as well. My greatest concern with AI is not AI itself but the centralization of it to a small handful of people. I doubt most people want to be at the complete mercy of the “benevolence” of those at the top. At least rn in the western world we have some rights to protect us from abuse. But what happens when those rights disappear because the people don’t have the power to keep their leaders in check?

AI is not a problem, capitalism is. We, as a community and as humans, need to come together and find an ultimate solution for the next economical system, in order to abolish capitalism once and for all, only so we can reach a new stage of existence.

Maybe we can ask AI to solve the problems AI will cause labor

A speculation. Jobs and human value could become generative or creativity based in order to compensate for areas ais are non-adaptive. Perhaps a prelude to another exploration age.

UBI for all!

Plumber, electrician, carpenter, welder, HVAC technician, automotive technician, hairstylist, makeup artist, chef, baker, bartender, massage therapist, fitness trainer, landscape gardener, housekeeper, tailor, locksmith, plumber, painter, nanny , bricklayer, astronaut, surgeon, nurse, dental technician, caregiver, archivist, sports coach, mail carrier, etc not going away in the near future

I went on a website that offers tasks like graphics , marketing and etc. this website charges pennies on a dollar to do a task some of the workers are from other countries and charge low to do a task. I've been using overseas services for a while. Because the graphic artist here were really high in prices.

AI’s mind is living in the sci-fi world!

Where's the market to buy your product if you use robots to work for you but no one has a job??? (Mr. Bean doesn't answer……scratches his head with that puzzled look )

Super video. 100%

the fact that UBI is still not being talked about is extremely concerning. Also, please extrapolate out the robotics problem. If there is an AGI that can write code and engineer at a super human level, it will be VERY soon that we have bipedal robots being made. Which will then take over most jobs period. Anyone that sees how surface level this video is, please look up "AI post labor economics". We are in a lot more trouble than mainstream media are telling you. Listen to experts, not executives.

Learn to co…… Oh wait……. Learn to mow lawns……

2:53 - High Rising Tone “justification for layoffs?” Ugh 3:33 - At OpenAi?

Creativity is going to get increasingly mediocre.

I am about to start working in a big accounting firm and I don't see anything that I or other accountants do that can't be replaced by AI.

The last sentence is impossible. Without a UBI we should expect a breakdown of the little social cohesion that exists.

Yea the feature length film isn't quite accurate imo (yet). Neither is video (yet).

Corporations have always wanted free or cheap as free labor. It’s the source of many of our country’s problems. Whether it’s slavery, child labor, hiring illegal immigrants, shipping jobs overseas to countries that don’t care about exploiting workers, or replacing people with technology including AI. It all ties back to greedy corporate leadership that craves free labor or at least an easily exploited and cheap work force.

If AI takes over all those jobs in the future than where will the consumers come from? NO money, NO buy.

My sons are commercial lawyers working in international crossborder deals. They say that the routine work of documentation is already under threat from AI. Only the uniquely creative work they do in negotiations can keep them ahead. I work in a high skill very technical policy area and I am an expert commercial financial advisor. My knowledge is all available in databases in theory. The problem is that my younger colleagues don't know what they need to know from those databases. I can tell them in minutes and save them weeks of work. If they used AI they might put the the right key words into an AI tool to write the policy document they have been tasked with by sheer luck but they wouldn't know if the answers were right. Even then AI can't do novel policy work. AI is very good at replicating and developing variants of existing work - which is what a lot of law documents are especially in codified law systems.

oh my

WSJ has mastered the art of disempowering predictions

One of the top industries least likely to be replaced by automation is construction. At least in the foreseeable future. I'm joining the international union of operating engineers like several generations of the men in my family. Good pay, good benefits, good job security.

Meanwhile me looking at the DaVinci surgical laparoscopic robot.... ... welp guess I know who's replacing me soon.

at 0.04 - SRDS (Sudden Robot Death Syndrome)

If AI works like the automated telephone answering system. Forget it. Hate those auto answering systems!

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Layoffs are more about the state of the economy I believe. But, I believe we will see lesser jobs because fewer people will be more productive. A constant issue workplaces are facing as technology evolves. Then they underpay the people left behind.

"When Chuck Schumer speaks, no one listens."

Using AI is a choice. The people in charge of making that choice will claim that they are helpless against the inevitable forces of competition which force their hand. And they will be shielded from the consequences, as they gain more money for shareholders and for themselves at the expense of the workers who are laid off. The idea that workers will get new, different, more interesting work should consider what happened to factory workers who's jobs were outsourced, who ended up working in low paying retail jobs. The people in power seeking profit only care about themselves. They shouldnt be allowed to make decisions that will undermine worker's rights. Worker solidarity needs to be re-established, as it seems to be at an all-time low. The powerful divide and conquer us, paying off those people who survive rounds of layoffs, so that workers are incentivized to avoid supporting one another, especially white collar workers. Strikes can combat layoffs, but once layoffs happen, workers lose their leverage. Solidarity with consumers can change company policies, but it never happens because consumers act as individuals in the economy, with no incentive to support higher-level issues. Look at how lackidaisical climate change progress is being made, needing strong input from government to advance. Until workers and consumers get educated and start demanding that their groups are remunerated properly for their inherint worth, robber barons will steal anything that is not nailed down.

Don't say middle class! It's not middle class, middle classis very small.

Copyright infringement nightmare.

all gone down

Can CEO jobs being replaced by AI? Oh...yes! The real question is whether AI increases productivity or NOT?

Currently, Copyright can't apply to works that a device or computer like Generative AI creates. Maybe it can be the same with trademark and other legal protections when a product is generated by an AI; since it only applies to works done by a human. There are already AI that can detect other AI work, employed by other companies. This might allow other companies to legally take other company's works for themselves. Could cause the corporation to rethink replacing their employees with robots. But I'm pretty sure that there still be trimmings to their workforce.

The writers guild should better be replaced by ai judging by the last movies that came out

The robot also got to rest!

I’m just concerned. Very few rich will get richer, the rest will get catastrophically poorer and miserable.

wow

Welcome to the machine

AI be like when the internet first boomed. Ppl be afraid at start, then eventually we all go ... why didn't we have this sooner!?

They took er jerbs

Gene editing, AI, quantum computers, compact fusion reactors.... Envision the exotic characteristics of every carbon-based life form on the planet and QC AI, combining those characteristics into an entity with its own evolutionary purpose with unlimited energy,... Ten years away... The technology advancements are much further along than what's being disclosed

*freeze frame* It was at this moment that human greed overcame social welfare as it always does.

People who never invested anything into their education and skills will be the easiest to replace. People who are NPCs. These people are already like robots and will be discarded like robots for a new and better tool.

It's all been predicted in cyberpunk art.

Ai can’t do appliance repair so I’m safe lol 😂

Nous voulons la vérité.

only quality candidates and not quantity

2:20 I wish the CEO will consult an AI first before making unfortunate decisions

2:20 sounds to me like the most plausible prediction of the video.

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Very good video.

Oscar Wilde wrote that one day automatons would do all the labor and leave each person to find their inner artist. In reality AI is going to take all of the white collar and Artist jobs and send men back to fields to do labor.

replace politicians with Ai

We are only thousand years away from AI dangers

Anything to boost that stock price 💵💵💵

AI gonna get us all

Sweatbacks Unite!!!

Revolution that replaces blue collar jobs. -> How lucky are we to be in this era, we are making history! Revolution that replaces white collar jobs. -> This is a nightmare! LOL how lucky are we to in this era that we can witness the white collar to be replaced!!!

i am photo editor. i am being layoff first

AI can make offices obsolete. AI can empty the office floors of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. Some office buildings will be converted into multi-purpose, let alone, apartment buildings.

AI is become popular

it will disappoint both optimists and pessimists

To remove business decision workers who work independently outside of systems and subsystems and internally within enterprise utilizing public facing and corporate admins to identify weakness -retrain- and recovery any/ all cash.

The writer's guild strike is much more than AI technologies. Main problem was not keeping many writers, and just getting a head writer to outline the plot and fill it in later

Time to unionize

It would be cool if AI could help my voice be heard with my local rep, vs them ignoring me or threatening me for going to them with a concern about fda violating law. 😛

We are going to have millions of homeless.

Hollywood was running out of ideas so AI took over and made original content 😮😢😂

AI wont replace your job an human with the help of AI WILL

AI could destroy invention, innovation and creativity as anyone who does these will be out of work. Does AI have different personalities? Otherwise scripts would be bland and repetitive.

People are going overboard with AI. People use the same arguments and computers started becoming more prevalent.

if company fires majority of staff due to AI to increase profits. Then who will buy the products and services if majority humans wont have jobs and money to use the services.

Yes ubi

IF Ai is doing everything then how money will flow?

AI can replace pretty much all tasks and soon can replace mankind and make the earth whole again.

😂 engineers and office workers think AI is great when they want to use it to replace a blue collar worker but when they realize with software and AI and the internet they can be replaced now it becomes a problem😂

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I think old people are more worried about this than young folks. Like, most older white collar professionals struggle to unmute their microphones. How’re they gonna learn how to adapt to and use wildly novel and advanced technologies? I’m looking forward to AI stuff coming for my job because it’ll only make things easier. I can spend more time working on more complicated tasks (like supporting executives who don’t know how to change the line spacing in a Word document).