How do we make AI a net jobs producer?

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@Carleas

I think the issue with this is identifying what a ‘job’ is. It’s relatively easy in an existing company to see when a position is eliminated and replaced with an AI.

But when a new company starts up and uses AI instead hiring someone, it’s pretty squishy how many ‘jobs’ were replaced. Even more so when a small company uses AI instead of hiring a vendor to do a job that doesn’t justify a full-time position. Have they replaces 0.2 jobs? How do they hire 0.2 humans?

It can replace many jobs without replacing a full single job. If it can do something in Human Resources that was one task in 10 people’s jobs, then perhaps two people can be let go. The others get more of other tasks and the AI handles all the X, so they no longer have that in their job descriptions.

AIs don’t have to be able to replace a full position to eliminate jobs.