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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Factory workers were getting their jobs replaced by robots decades ago, and everyone just told them to suck it up and go retrain their skills (as if that's a simple thing).

adjl posted...

Factory workers were automated into obsolescence because designing a machine to do repetitive mechanical tasks is pretty easy

I don't know if you all have stepped into a factory recently, but, factory work is very much not fully automated. It costs millions to create that machine for a line that's going to be around maybe 4 years at most. It's also not a "fire and forget" machine that marketers claim it to be. It still takes even more specialized automation teams to maintain those machines.

Mundane factory work is still alive and well because those workers are cheaper than automation.

That's my professional opinion, because I'm an engineer at an automotive supplier who has only a slight amount of automation (and shakes my fist at operators fucking up perfectly fine parts).

AI will be different. It takes a team of, say, 10, to automate a department of 50 (and then budget cuts come in). Anyone who spends their day in front of the computer 95% of the time, is likely to be automated, or extremely reduced departments once corporate realizes programmers can just ask a computer to do the code.
I'll also happily, any, any, any day of the week take AI HR over any single HR person I've dealt with.