People Building AI are Warning of Job Armageddon – Hajnen Payson
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post)
Internet search and marketing expert Hajnen Payson is back with more on Artificial Intelligence (AI) sweeping the world. Last time, Payson was on USAW describing an “AI revolution,” but the revolution has turned into a dire warning of an AI job killing Armageddon. You may think Payson is an alarmist, but his deep dive on the coming AI job destruction is coming from the very top people in the AI world. Payson says, “In my opinion, we are facing a job crisis and Armageddon. This is not just my opinion; I am going off the leading experts that are deploying AI. Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts, ‘all white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months.’ He also believes ‘AI will reach human level performance in all white collar work.’ . .. There are so many journalists that criticize anything counter to the AI utopia narrative as being an alarmist. . .. This is not what’s going to happen decades from now, this is what is happening now. It’s what is rolling out. This is based on the statements of the top people building, deploying and managing AI systems in corporate America today. When the scientists building AI are warning us, when the CEOs deploying it are warning us and when the CEOs of Americas biggest companies are openly sharing concern, this is a signal we should be paying attention to. Together this forms a convergence that is difficult to dismiss. If structural engineers questioned a bridges load tolerance, we would not accuse them of hysteria because the bridge hasn’t collapsed yet. . .. With AI, you are an alarmist if you are getting information from the AI builders, architects and those that are directly in charge of rolling this out.”
How big of a change is this? Payson says, “This is the largest economic and social transition in modern history. . .. People say this is just an automation wave. It’s not. We’ve never seen this before. This is not the Industrial Revolution that replaced manual labor. In all those scenarios, humans were still involved. Humans still had jobs. . .. This time it’s different. The category being compressed is general cognitive work itself. For the first time in history, we are building systems that are performing broad intellectual tasks that were once thought to require human reasoning. I have been in this business for about two decades. I work in search and digital growth from startups to Fortune 500 companies. The biggest take away I can say is I have never seen anything evolve as fast as AI is evolving.”
So, what have the top AI people been saying? Payson says, “These are the biggest people in the space. These are not fringe people. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that ‘AI could soon eliminate 50% of all entry-level and white-collar jobs.’ . .. The so-called godfather of AI is Geoffery Hinton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics and machine learning with artificial neural networks. Hinton is a former professor and Google AI VP. He predicts ‘AI could trigger widespread job losses, fuel social unrest and eventually outsmart humans.’ . .. An article at the World Economic Forum . . . says ‘between 400 million to 800 million jobs could be displaced by AI by 2030.’ . .. Former Google AI leader Jad Tarifi said, ‘Degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation. . .. Higher education, as we know it, is on the verge of becoming obsolete.’
Dex Hunter-Torricke who worked at Google, SpaceX, the UN and Facebook says that AI ‘will likely lead to mass job losses, geopolitical upheaval and damage to the environment. There is no plan. I do not believe for a second that winging it through the biggest economic and technological transition in human history is a responsible way to do things.. .. We are sleepwalking into disaster.’ Computer scientist Stuart Russell, who wrote one of the top college textbooks on artificial intelligence, says, ‘We are looking at 80% unemployment due to AI.’”
In closing, Payson says, “This could be nightmarish. . .. Where is this going? Nobody really knows. . .. Never in recorded history have we been at a crossroads like this.”
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Greg. Wow! Something else to deal with. Does this mean that we will have millions of homeless encampments, instead of thousands? What will happen to the millions of illegal aliens? Can AI round them up and deport them? Will AI replace the corrupt politicians? Is AI corrupt?
I need to research AI. Linda
Linda,
Black Star will disrupt the data centers. Jesus said, “All power in Heaven and on Earth have been given to me.” Satan does not control the Heavens. Jesus does. Read the 7,000 word free article in the After the Interview section.
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Add’l comment; I suppose it would be robots that could be utilized to round up illegal aliens. Perhaps they can assist ICE, and scare off those maniacs like the ones in Minneapolis That would be nice. Linda
Great interview Greg- you’re over the target. One big question i have is- How is Ai going to be taxed? I find it hard to believe the politicians will say no thanks to taxing some kind of wealth creating tech and double down on taxing out of work voters. When the Longshoremen had their strike, the business manager said something to this effect.
And i believe Ai has some things very similar to the Tower of Babel.
Seer: your last post on previous interview very alarming! I was back in SD all of 22 and half of 21 and stayed with 2 people who had 3 moderna for 2 months. Also Active out doors and watched the spraying many days, by afternoon the sky totally overcast. Did not see white fluffy clouds till back in Philippines. I now have rash on arms, minor cognitive issues, and two others I can’t remember. Imagine that.
Man has technologically destroyed himself. In almost all areas of expertise.
If AI is going to create 80% Unemployment it will be a “Dream Come True” for the Commies as it will finally create their “Dream of Economic Equality” (where almost everyone is Bankrupt, Out of a Job and Own Nothing)! And, although the Big Business Men who own the AI Factories will have all kinds of Cheaply Produced Products – They will have “Zero Customers” as “There Will Not be any People with Money to Buy their Products”!!! So “All the Big Business Men “Will Also Go Bankrupt”!!! The acronym “AI” should stand for “Armageddon Incubator”!!!