I would argue that you should be worried about your job but not just because of AI but because mergers and other business activity could kill your job. The concern is the speed of any potential transition. But do not just worry plan and act.
If we assume that there will be vastly higher risks of job loss, then individuals should not assume that policies will not be created in time to properly buffer people from the job loss.
Faster retraining would help but if we cannot identify the new work there would be a large lag for the right training to be created.
– reduce personal debt as fast as possible
– have more than one income stream or job
– have a backup career
– work in a career that is less prone to automation
– have personal awareness of developments that are threats to your job or career
Longer term people might be in a more resilient situation if they had their own business or had more stock ownership.
Ray Kurzweil
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American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist.
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