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re: How many white collar jobs are going to be replaced by AI in the next 5 years?

Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:19 pm to
Posted by captainFid
Vestavia, AL
Member since Dec 2014
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:19 pm to
At least 100k - 400k, in my opinion.

Doctors and Lawyers are protected [by their respective associations]. But law clerks, medical coders and entry level programmers will be the first hit.

Posted by Leopold
Columbia
Member since Sep 2013
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:22 pm to
There is going to have to be a way in integrate AI into the 'demand' side of the economic equation as all the advances I have seen have come from the 'supply' side, ie AI can make stuff and provide services but they don't buy anything from anyone.

Is it possible to use AI as consumers as well as producers?
Posted by dstone12
Texan
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:23 pm to
Posted by UcobiaA
The Gump
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:27 pm to
They are already, at least prototypes. I can't prove it but I think they are slow rolling the use of some robots. It may be a matter of the cost of the robots being more than human labor right now. Fast food places could probably implement them soon. There are cement robots already and 3d printers making buildings. The world is going to be changing fast.
Posted by RohanGonzales
Member since Apr 2024
5259 posts
Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:30 pm to
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And don't question the firing of the woman in charge of the copyright office who was sounding alarm bells over AI, even though she was asked to do the study on future impacts.


She was not fired because of that.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:45 pm to
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She was not fired because of that.

Sure, sure......
Posted by The Torch
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:49 pm to
A Bunch

I work for a large life insurance company, we have recently started using AI to assess risk of individuals dying by using their Rx History and ICD codes analyzed by a program.
Posted by The Torch
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:50 pm to
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Posted by SaintsTiger
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Posted on 5/29/25 at 1:51 pm to
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Millions of office jobs to start with over the next 5-10. As someone just wrapping up a CS degree, it’s been incredibly sobering and depressing.


Start a business on a credit card. Get around freelancers and start up people in coworkings or wherever. Live in a cheap Asian country with other people doing the same thing you are.


Fast forward 40 years and you’ll be telling your grandkids how you embraced the changing world and made out like a bandit.
Posted by lake chuck fan
westlake
Member since Aug 2011
18364 posts
Posted on 5/29/25 at 2:18 pm to
Don't know or care. My collar is blue. I can fish, hunt, build a house, grow my garden, etc.
And I live in a community of folks who share the same life experiences and worldview as I do.
Its the people living in the big city cess pools that need to be worried. IMHO
Posted by Porpus
Covington, LA
Member since Aug 2022
2527 posts
Posted on 5/29/25 at 2:28 pm to
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How many white collar jobs are going to be replaced by AI in the next 5 years?
On a net basis, the number is negative and quite possibly large.
Posted by bodask42
Tuscaloosa
Member since Aug 2009
2387 posts
Posted on 5/29/25 at 2:44 pm to
Im a structural engineer. Not worried at all for the next 5 years. I think the key is to embrace AI as a tool where it is useful (for me Perplexity AI is the main thing I use and just as a search engine, which it does really well). While I can definitely see some tasks being automated in the coming years in my line of work, not worried at all about displacement for a loonnngg time. And maybe never as long as a professional engineering license is required.
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