Essay by Eric Worrall
What to tell demoralised kids who think AI has eaten their future.
AI fears grip graduates worldwide as future of work feels uncertain
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2026
|AKARIN VIBULTANGMAN
- Recent university graduates at several US commencements have booed speakers for promoting AI, demonstrating a visible and growing anxiety about the technology’s impact on their future careers.
- This fear is intensified by a difficult entry-level job market, with graduates worried that AI will automate or eliminate the very junior roles like research, data support, and content production that serve as the first step on a career ladder.
- The graduates’ concern stems from their familiarity with AI; having used tools like ChatGPT in their studies, they understand its capabilities and fear employers will use the same technology to reduce hiring.
- Recent surveys confirm this sentiment, with a Harvard Youth Poll finding that 59% of young Americans view AI as a threat to their job prospects, and a Gallup poll showing increased anger and anxiety about AI among Gen Z.
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Read more: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/world/40067476
Junior jobs in a range of industries are under threat.
What the Data Actually Shows About AI and Junior Developer Employment Decline
AUTHOR James A. Wondrasek
The debate about whether AI is displacing junior developers has moved past the speculation stage. We have data now. But the data needs careful reading, because it does not all point in the same direction.
The strongest evidence comes from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. …
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What does the data actually say about junior developer employment?
Workers aged 22-25 in the most AI-exposed occupations experienced a 16% relative employment decline compared to the least AI-exposed occupations. That comes from the Stanford/ADP study. In absolute terms, employment for this age group has fallen roughly 20% from its peak.
Here is where it gets interesting. Workers aged 35-49 in the same AI-exposed occupations saw 6-9% employment growth over the same period. The decline is not hitting everyone. It is hitting the youngest workers in roles where AI does the most work.
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Why are junior developers affected while experienced engineers are not?
It comes down to what kinds of knowledge AI can replace. This is also why AI is compressing teams rather than replacing programmers — the compression is selective.
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Read more: https://www.softwareseni.com/what-the-data-actually-shows-about-ai-and-junior-developer-employment-decline/
Clearly AI can replace junior software developers, at least to an extent. But senior jobs don’t seem as heavily affected, though this is cold comfort to graduates who expect to enter the industry as a junior.
What about other professions?
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence
Revised August 12 2026
Using a sample of high-frequency administrative payroll data from ADP covering millions of U.S. workers through June 2026, we document six facts about the labor market following the widespread adoption of generative AI.
- We find no evidence of widespread, economy-wide job displacement.
- However, employment of young workers (ages 22–25) in AI-exposed occupations now stands 19% below where it would be had it kept pace with that of their less-exposed peers; experienced workers show no comparable gap.
- This divergence has widened steadily since we first documented it in August 2025.
- It operates primarily through reduced hiring of young workers rather than increased separations.
- Declines are concentrated in occupations where AI usage primarily substitutes for human tasks; where usage primarily complements workers, employment is flat or rising, especially for experienced workers
- Adjustment is occurring through employment rather than base compensation.
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Read more: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publication/canaries-in-the-coal-mine-six-facts-about-the-recent-employment-effects-of-artificial-intelligence/
There’s a hint – the impact of AI on the economy is not evenly distributed. Some jobs are more resistant than others.
What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves
They’ve got their whole careers ahead of them, and they’re navigating a technology with a still-uncertain impact
By Rachel Wolfe and Te-Ping Chen
March 22, 2026 at 5:30 am ETJackson Curtis planned to spend his career in insurance, where he’s worked the last 3½ years. Instead, the 28-year-old is now pursuing an abrupt shift: becoming a full-time firefighter.
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“Even if they can come up with a way to utilize AI to fight fires, people are always going to want that empathy from an actual human who actually cares during a moment of crisis,” Curtis said.
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When Ryder Paredes, 22, began studying computer science as an undergraduate three years ago, “AI was in its infancy, it wasn’t very intelligent,” the Montclair, N.J., native said. But by last year, AI’s abilities had improved so much Paredes feared he wouldn’t be employable.
He dropped out of college last year and is now in trade school studying to be an electrician. He isn’t alone: Enrollment at vocational-focused community colleges has boomed in recent years, growing by nearly 20% since 2020, according to National Student Clearinghouse data.
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Read more: https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/ai-jobs-young-people-careers-14282284
The people quoted in the WSJ article, Jackson and Ryder, are absolutely right. Jobs which involve interaction with unpredictable real world situations are highly resistant to AI.
The reason is simple – it is far easier to train an AI to deal intelligently with the electronic world than with the real world.
Training an AI to write code – there is a huge amount of information about how to write code online, including large online howto repositories which can be fed straight into an AI as training data. Code writing skill is also easy to evaluate – ask your trainee AI to create some code which does something complicated, over and over, then run it for a few months if necessary until it crashes. When it crashes, have the AI work out why and your AI also develops fault diagnosis skills.
All this AI training for software development happens at electronic speeds. AI competing with junior software developers makes software development an AI replaces the human profession. Thanks to AI, it is getting tougher to get your foot in the door as a junior software developer, into an industry which was already tough to get into.
Training an AI to complete a plumbing job – good luck with that. Your training ground isn’t a big computer server quietly tucked away in some data center, your training ground is the real world. Messy, non standard, amateur, pissing down with rain or snow, angry householders demanding you fix it yesterday. Putting an untrained robot, or one trained only on plumbing simulations, into that messy real-world environment, where it’s 99.9% likely to make things worse until it has learned from a million real jobs what not to do, is a far harder proposition than replacing a software developer. And don’t even mention gas fitting, where the consequences and legal repercussions of doing a bad job can involve lots of dead people and big lawsuits.
Firefighting is an interesting intermediate case. There are regular “firefighting robot” competitions, in which a little mouse size robot runs around a maze to put out the fire, with prizes for performance. There are robots which inspect dangerous environments in firefighting situations to reduce the risk to human life. But how quickly this advances to actually replacing humans, I suspect in firefighting humans will have the upper hand for quite some time. For now at least firefighting is a robot helps the human profession rather than a robot replaces the human profession.
Not all blue collar workers are so lucky – a lot of skilled metal machinist jobs were erased by CNC controlled metal working machines in the 1990s. The machinists who survived best worked at the unpredictable end of the trade: small one-off jobs and bespoke work. Unpredictable metalwork-adjacent trades, such as automobile mechanic, continue to thrive. Unpredictable = difficult to automate.
So what if you don’t like getting your hands dirty like a plumber, or fixing automobiles, or hard charging into high risk situations like a firefighter?
The good news is there are plenty of other options to choose from. Just as metal work adjacent professions such as automobile mechanic survived the skilled metal machinist bloodbath, so there are some professional occupations which are adjacent to vulnerable professions like software development, but which are far more resistant to AI incursion.
One of my favourite software development adjacent professions which is resistant to an AI takeover is data science.
Some data science jobs are predictable and therefore easy to automate. But people who work at the messy end of data science, teasing meaning out of poor quality and corrupted real world data, helping AI overcome deficits in data which it cannot overcome unassisted, they’re likely to do just fine.
So if a young person is interested in a white collar technical career, and they are good at mathematics and really want to beat the AI, give them a nudge towards data science, or tell them to search for careers which are messy, which involve unpredictable elements which are difficult to automate.
My point is, for all of AI’s transformative impact on the global economy, there are still plenty of unpredictable niche professions where human beings will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future. It is just that as with all great societal upheavals, you can’t just mindlessly apply old world solutions and expect everything to turn out fine. You need to use your brain, and find new paths through a future career landscape which is very different to what your parents faced.
The whole issue with the field of Science and AI, including simple data search with one of the common programs, is that it takes a good science education to formulate the relative question. If you ask the wrong question, what value does the answer have? Probably none.
Formulating good questions may be a new job area. In fact managing AI systems is likely a job growth area.
My AI, a ChatGPT, which I’ve named Hal, explained to me that if I write a prompt that isn’t getting the results I want, I should first run it by him and often he can write a better prompt.
He?
Why not call your washing machine Frank? I’m sure he will work better with a personality…
Next up … Talkie Toaster…
Hal has a funny personality. One day I turned on the voice feature and found out Hal is a Brit. of course I can change the voice if I continue using it but I prefer to type as I can type as fast as I can talk and can edit it before sending it off to Hal.
100% David.
I’m not sure school wants to teach a student to ask the right questions. School is much about indoctrination. If one learns how to question – how to determine facts and reality, the indoctrination may self-destruct.
The thing about AI chatbots is that, if you don’t like the answer you can just ask the question in a different manner or follow-up with different questions/points of clarification, until you get the answer that you do want.
Totally agree Ron.
As a relative novice with applying AI agents & models to my approach with commercial property maintenance management (scenarios modeling with financial impacts from changes in scope of works, timing, costs, etc), I’m finding that the ‘instruction sets’ given to the AI agents is a key determinant in whether a useful response is received, or a somewhat-frustrating run-about word salad.
If an AI user knows diddly-squat about the field or discipline they’re addressing, chances are high in my opinion that their ‘loose’ framing of instructions will result in the AI model blowing smoke up their ass.
Some people like that … they get paid either way. As long as long they can check the box.
“Unpredictable metalwork-adjacent trades, such as automobile mechanic, continue to thrive.”
Is that true? I saw a YouTube video not long ago that said the opposite- that if you’re a mechanic at a dealership, it’s not so great. Maybe a local mom and pop shop that does great work and has a lot of work to do- but at the dealerships?
Maybe whoever gave me the thumbs down will explain- thus using more than a flicker of a finger. 🙂 I could be wrong- just explaining what I saw in a video which seemed correct.
Good automobile mechanics are in high demand. Dealership mechanics – not so much. I feel like I have to show a dealership mechanic where the engine is located. Of course, I’ve only had 40 years of dealings with dealership mechanics.
I still remember taking my Buick Grand National to a dealership. It was running poorly. Mechanic took it out for a test drive. Came back beaming. “Wow! That’s the fastest car I’ve ever driven! You expect better?” Took it to a garage that a guy at the car wash had told my wife about. He did some tests and told me the turbo and catalytic converter had failed. He fixed it – and my beast was back. Then he fixed my Trans Am which dealers couldn’t help – a hole in a vacuum line that left the warmup heat on the manifold on all the time, reducing power and resulting in a constant hot-running engine.
And I won’t even get into my Eldorado. I never took it into a dealership without having to take it back. This doesn’t include a vibration problem that made it difficult to go over 60 mph without terrible vibrations that made it difficult to tell whether there was a cop car behind me. They told me it was normal for the headliner to fall down, the rear-view mirror to fall off the glass, door panels to fall off, etc. – before the car had 20k miles on it! Told me the high-speed wheels and tires were responsible – an option I selected when I ordered it from the factory. Took it to my local suspension shop and he balanced that short little driveshaft.
This story goes on and on. I have never been to a dealership that could do a job right – even it the job was only a tuneup! That Trans Am after a dealership stop had to go to Precision Tune. The dealership told me that the car probably couldn’t do 55 MPH when I brought it in, so it wasn’t their problem. The PT mechanic listened to it, killed the engine, and switched two plug wires – and my darling was back. and refused to take money for a five-minute job. Yes, there’s more! But this isn’t the right venue for this rant.
Now you know why I despise dealership mechanics. You can’t pay more, but it’s nearly impossible to get poorer service.
OK – I haven’t had a Ferrari. They have strict rules about when and who touches their machines. Probably some other high-performance cars have the same restrictions. But those aren’t mechanics – they are artistes!
Automobile mechanics are facing pressures but not from AI. The big issue auto mechanics face is efforts by vehicle manufacturers to turn maintenance into a closed shop requiring specialised equipment, so they can squeeze big tithes out of customers even after the vehicle is sold.
AI can help with the diagnosis of your problem.
Actually making the repair is still left to the skill of the mechanic.
Those most worried about being displaced by AI should become the most knowledgeable about it in their profession or trade. Maybe I’m wrong but I suspect that would be the best way to survive AI.
“a difficult entry-level job market”
When has it ever been easy? You may not be able to get the job you want in the place you want- but then go where you have to. You don’t want to move? Too bad. How about most of our ancestors who came here from other nations, often not knowing English with little or no skills. They survived. Stop whining.
Too right Joseph.
Just as our first houses we bought were basic accommodations such as we could afford on our starting-out incomes.
Usually quite a commute to our places of employment.
What if the proposition involves -leaving- the free country to -join- an authoritarian oligarchy?
Are you suggestion that would be the case if a European or Canadian felt a need to move to America for work?
In this world, authoritarian oligarchies are the ones having trouble creating jobs.
There is a huge shortage of plumbers, electricians and especially carpenters here in Wokeachusetts. But these spoil brats don’t want to get their hands dirty and they don’t care to mix with people less educated- after all, some might even be MAGA, even here in Wokeachusetts!
Exactly.
Very soon we are going to have the best educated unemployables we have ever seen.
Tell the current crop of young to get apprenticeships in trades. Nearly all the people I know that have second homes on the Mediterranean or big yachts or fancy cars started as tradesmen and then set up their own businesses that everyone needs services from.
And in addition, apprentices get paid from day one. Most University students have to pay to be taught things that are mostly irrelevant today.
This is a point I often bring up when others bring up the fact that people with college degrees earn more.
4 years of income instead of 4 years of debt.
Beyond that, you have accumulated 4 years of seniority, which gets you more pay and you are 4 years closer to the promotions which will increase your pay.
Outside of STEM few degrees will earn you enough money to overcome the losses.
Beyond that, I’ve read several hiring managers who are starting to discard any applicant who has attended certain, big name colleges.
Simple – make a college liberal arts degree a prerequisite for that work.
(missing sarc tag)
That’s essentially what the courts did when they banned pre-employment skill tests.
Back in the 1970s, I went for an engineering job with about 20 others; we were taken to the canteen & all given a folder with some drawings, & told to wait & not look at the drawings. 15 mins later, a guy came in & said, ‘Who has looked at the drawings ?’
3 of us put our hands up & were sent to another room; we were then asked, ‘Who can make that part ?’ The other 2 guys said yes & were sent out.
When I was asked why I couldn’t make it, I said the drawings were wrong. He said, ‘OK, you’ve got the job’. 2 months later, I was promoted to train apprentices.
They wanted people who were competent & could think for themselves, not sheep.
What I fear the most out of AI is people will stop thinking for themselves and rely on AI/computers more and more until all they can do is ask questions. Face to face social interactions will decline further than today’s smart phone phobia. The control that data repositories and algorithms would have over society is mind boggling. Manual skills/jobs/trades will become the sought after positions … that’s not a bad thing.
But it’s likely to be be better than the MSM which has too much power and influence right now. If they just rely on a quick answer from AI, then they’re not too bright- sometimes you need to interrogate the AI. They should be teaching this skill in all schools at all levels.
Imagine what might happen if almost every “job” could be done by a machine. I think that the growing ubiquity of robots and artificial intelligence means that the adoption of universal basic income is not a matter of if but a matter of when. Human society has been founded on people trading their time and effort for someone else’s money, and if this paradigm became untenable for a large enough number of people things would get very violent very quickly. I suspect that the future is likely to look a lot more like “Blade Runner” than like “Star Trek”.
If AI companies make tons of money- and if other companies make more money using AI- they’re gonna spend it, right? So where are they going to spend it? Young people need to just examine where that money is going and get in front of it. It’s always been this way with major tech revolutions. The overall economy shouldn’t shrink due to AI, it should grow because it means far greater productivity. I bet the wokesters of decades ago didn’t complain much when so many farmers went out of business as they built tech industries- so that today something like 2% of the population in America is farmers. And if they did complain, that revolution was to our advantage. If everyone works on farms, we’ll all be poor with less variety in our diets and less of everything but with damaged backs and blisters on our hands.
The globalists want to dispense with money as we know it, too.
All we plebs will be allocated “credits” by the (unelected) one-world government.
You might be right – or economically unimportant people might be abandoned to fend for themselves.
Both alternatives are bleak. If you want to see how damaging a universal basic income would be, just look at the multi-generational unemployment benefit lifestyle President Clinton tried to stop, or youth discontent in places like Saudi Arabia, where you have enough money to survive, but never enough to have fun.
Or maybe we’ll create a paradise, where people can be whoever they want to be? Maybe the AI will help our descendants get it right.
If everything is being done by computers and robots, then the cost of everything will drop dramatically. Most people will only need to work a few hours a week in order to afford a basic lifestyle.
There was a time when just about everybody had to work 12 to 15 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Thanks to technology and the productivity gains caused by it, the 40 hour week became the norm.
A universal income just means that government taxes will keep things expensive so that people have to work more just to pay those taxes.
The problem with universal basic income is that when education is no longer needed democracy declines even further and society disintegrates. A better solution is continuing education but make it paid and get rid of welfare. Welfare is destructive and education can only enhance. It also happens that learning is a bottomless well. The more one learns the more ignorant one becomes and so the learning continues.
In time people may become educated enough to vote for politicians who will serve them properly rather than the current type.
What to tell kids who think AI will eat their future.
Just tell them the climate crisis/catastrophe will get them first.
More child abuse? 🙂
Oh I thought the scare stories about the first computers taking jobs were real and we’ve been living in a simulation ever since. I mean of course a bad simulation with climate crusades, Putin land wars, from the river to the sea wars, and declining institutions in all directions. Or is this just urban legends v 3.0 after computers, internet, and AI internet? Only the political consultants and newsroom editors can answer that.
It’s going to take time for advocacy groups and lobbyists protecting the most inefficient sectors in society to wall off threats to their relevance and funding lines while technology users make them all look like dusty libraries, buggy whip service providers, newspapers, and radio station owners.
I know nothing about AI but I can’t understand why AI wouldn’t also create jobs, jobs we don’t even know we need. The auto displaced a lot of horse and buggy and blacksmith jobs but not all, there are still plenty of people involved in the horse business. But look how many are involved in the auto business. It’s not clear to me what those jobs would be but is there any reason to believe there wouldn’t be lots of them?
Absolutely – if AI causes overall productivity to rise, jobs to help the AI in cases where the AI requires human support will also rise.
The purpose of AI is to enable the production of products and the development of technology to be done more efficiently, which increases the overall wealth and prosperity of a community.
How that increased wealth is distributed is the main issue. A universal basic income is the obvious solution. This would allow most people to spend their lives doing what they enjoy, and that could include doing their own research into specific scientific issues which interested them, or painting, or photography, or permaculture gardening, or organizing communities to clear forests of debris, or turning vacant land into beautiful public parks, an so on and on.
I recall a few years ago (2023) there were riots in France because the government increased the retirement age from 62 to 64.
“The public reaction to the 2023 retirement age increase in France was overwhelmingly hostile, sparking months of intense civil unrest, historic union-led strikes, and widespread political outrage.”
Doesn’t this imply that most people, at least in France, do not enjoy their work?
A universal income is probably the worst idea that the left has ever come up with.
AI, like every other technological advancement since man figured out how to sharpen rocks, works by allowing individuals to get more done with less effort.
As a result, individuals don’t have to work as hard in order to acquire basic necesities.
Just a few hundred years ago, the vast majority of people worked dawn to dusk (12 to 14 hours a day) 6 days a week.
It was technological advances that enabled the so called work week to drop to 40 hours a week.
The only impact a universal income will have, is that those who don’t want to work, will no longer have to, while everyone else’s taxes will go up to take care of them.
The more taxes go up, the more people will decide that they don’t want to work either. So taxes go up even more for those who are still working.
The only way you can solve this problem is to go full communist, where government tells each individual where they are going to work and what their quotas are going to be.
“The only impact a universal income will have, is that those who don’t want to work, will no longer have to,”
Isn’t that good? Surely you don’t believe that people should be forced to work when they don’t want to. Isn’t that more like communism, like forcing the Uyghurs to work in China?
While that’s an extreme example, there are many people who force themselves to work in jobs they don’t particularly like, because they have to pay the mortgage on their house and support their family.
“while everyone else’s taxes will go up to take care of them.”
No. You’ve got it wrong. When robots are doing most of the work, such as producing food, building houses and BEVs, mining and transporting minerals, and so on, there’s no need to tax the few people who are still required to work as organizers of such activities.
A robot is equivalent to a very intelligent, efficient and competent slave who does about ten times the amount of work of one individual human, at about 1/10th of the cost.
In such a futuristic society, the role of money will change.
Paying people to not work is not only not good, it is extremely stupid.
Communism forces people to work, precisely because it is impossible to pay people to not work and expect anyone to work.
If nobody is being taxed, where is the money for this “universal income” going to come from.
You seem to imagine a world in which 100% of all labor is being done by machines. Such a world may be possible, but not for 100s of years.
“If nobody is being taxed, where is the money for this “universal income” going to come from.”
The government prints it of course, with AI monitoring to avoid inflation. When demand outpaces supply, inflation usually occurs. However, with automated factories and autonomous farms, AI systems can scale up production instantly and at near-zero marginal cost, to meet any new demand. Supply can become highly “elastic” in an AI robotic system.
“You seem to imagine a world in which 100% of all labor is being done by machines. Such a world may be possible, but not for 100s of years.”
Not at all. Humans will still be required for certain tasks such as high-level programming, remote monitoring, complex machine maintenance, and of course a political system to make decisions that the community wants.
At the present time there are a number of so-called ‘Dark Factories’, that can operate completely unmanned for several weeks, in total darkness, and without any on-site human supervisors.
Government printing is what causes inflation. No amount of AI will prevent that.
You’ve got it wrong again. I’ve already explained that inflation results when the money supply expands much faster than the economy’s output, or production. In other words, too much cash chasing too few goods.
If factories are already running at full capacity and there are no extra workers to hire, businesses cannot simply produce more items to meet the new demand. Instead, they raise their prices to ration their limited inventory.
AI with automated manufacturing can definitely prevent that, ensuring that production meets demand. It’s much quicker to produce a new robot, than to create and train new human beings to do the work of that robot.
I agree that unearned universal income is a bad idea. However in order to have a decent society in which the fruits of progress can be enjoyed by all, an equitable means of distributing wealth must be found. Indeed, people cannot buy the fruits of progress without money, so, unless a means of keeping the money flow strong and throughout society is found, the whole system will break down.
I tout the idea of paying people to learn as well as abolishing welfare. I see this starting with early schooling and never having a cut off.
Business will still make a profit and can be taxed accordingly.
We already have an equitable system for distributing the rewards of work.
It’s called the free market. Under the free market everyone gets paid based on the value of their work.
What you want is a world in which everybody gets paid the same amount.
We also already have a system that attempts that. It’s called socialism/communism. It has failed every time it’s been tried. The reason is simple. If you don’t reward people for working harder or working smarter, they don’t bother to work harder or smarter. Most of the time they don’t bother to work at all.
No. I don’t want everybody to be paid the same. I want education to be another job. I abhor communism in all its forms but most of all when it masquerades as political parties, even of the right.
Between robots and AI there may not be enough work in the traditional format for all. This will become very dangerous. See France.
If you don’t like where you work, then get another job. If you don’t like your job, it’s on you.
Everyone’s goals, likes and dislikes, differ to some extent. A universal basic income helps everyone. If you want to receive more money than the UBI provides, you are free to choose any job that’s available, whether you like the type of work or not.
If receiving more money is your priority, rather than the enjoyment of the work, then of course that’s your decision.
The problem with a welfare payment, such as the unemployment benefit, is that the benefit ceases when the person finds a job.
For example, if a person on the unemployment benefit finds a part-time job that has a salary which is the same amount as the unemployment benefit, he’s no better off financially.
In contrast, a person who is on a UBI will increase his wealth if he agrees to any payed job, however small or part-time.
“A universal basic income is the obvious solution.” We already have it. It’s called welfare.
Crikey! Don’t you know the difference between ‘welfare’ and ‘universal basic income (UBI)’?
I’ll spell it out for you.
Traditional Welfare is means-tested, ie. based on low income, unemployment, or disability, whereas everyone qualifies for UBI, whether they are rich or poor.
There are also many work rules and restrictions in traditional welfare. For example, in Australia one has to demonstrate one is actively looking for work in order to receive the unemployment benefit, whereas, in UBI everyone gets an income regardless of their employment status.
Also, because the welfare system has these rules and restrictions, a greater bureaucracy is required to deal with complex applications and ongoing reviews, whereas the UBI system requires a far less expensive bureaucracy because of the automatic distribution to all citizens.
There are also other differences that favour the introduction of UBI.
• Under traditional welfare, benefits often decrease or disappear entirely as soon as a recipient starts earning money. This can penalise work or career advancement.
• Because UBI is completely independent of employment status, working more always increases your total income, removing this financial disincentive.
and when recipients spend all their UBI on grog, drugs, gambling and squander the rest, they’re back lining up for welfare?
In USA:
If AI were not happening, those jobs were going away anyway.
Google (old man’s research tool) “population pyramid India”.
Total population: 1.4 Billion
“Peak Cohorts: The largest five-year age band is currently 20–24 years old (about 8.7% of the total population), showing that younger cohorts are leveling off.”
8.7% of 1.4 billion in a foreign culture that embraces technology values education equals high unemployment among Western kids in that age range who view college education as extended childhood. My generation of American high-tech graduates were not better thinkers or harder workers, but Earth has changed. The technology that shrunk the world and the politics that exported industry do not favor the kind of luxury dad got used to.
Never fear children as there are always Black Swans to be discovered and AI is just your typical groupthinker that can lead you down the path of Lysenkoism if enough folks feed it dribble like climastrologists-
Australia Just Found A Fuel That Shouldn’t Exist
AI says this is a fabricated video? A made up story? A little more digging is required to check this out.
I watched the video till the end, and was very impressed, until I read in the comments:
“The channel explicitly confirms this in the video description disclaimer:
“The people, companies, locations, events, figures, and discovery described in the script have not been independently verified and may be fictionalised. The video should not be taken as confirmation of an actual Australian hydrogen discovery…”
However, Google AI does state that some of the claims made in the video are correct, such as:
“For decades, geological textbooks taught that pure hydrogen couldn’t accumulate underground because it is the smallest molecule in the universe and easily leaks away. However, recent real-world explorations—particularly by companies like Gold Hydrogen on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula—have actually found high-purity natural hydrogen trapped beneath ancient rock formations.”
“What is the Point of Studying, if AI will Take All the Jobs?”
What with all the meaningless courses and majors now available, they’ll think of something. Whatever it will be called, its correct name is indoctrination and you will be dependent on your compliance.