Artificial Intelligence Unavoidable Mass Human Extinction

Your unavoidable rendezvous with destiny. I am not arguing the merits or negatives of this change. The real question is whether you are about to become irrelevant. Think about it. Walk into any large box retail store today (please don’t forget we are a “consumer” economy). Look around and what do you see the employees doing. Stocking shelves? Checking out customers? Answering enquiries? All of these jobs are currently being replaced by Artificial intelligence robotics. They don’t need you. You will be irrelevant if you are employed in retail. Go to a Mickey D or similar fast food venue today and just watch. Half the jobs have already been eliminated from just 10 years ago and soon most fast foods will have eliminated 80% of their current employees with automation.

Look at farming today. We already have eliminated 90% of farming jobs over the past 50 years with automation. A single farmer can farm thousands of acres with the automation/AI available today. I know farmers that sit inside their climate controlled Tractor with a 30 inch screen watching CNBC while their computer generated grid is entered into their tractors planting/plowing/spraying. They trade options while their grid is being managed by AI.  They take care of thousands of acres with minimal hired help now.

Health care is drastically changing and will be unrecognizable in just a few years. You will enter an Emergency department and swipe you health care data into the system. You will be voice prompted and then state your chief complaint. This will trigger a series of voice prompts. Eventually the AI analysis including exam and imaging (most available now) will determine your diagnosis which may or may not be reviewed by a human. I am involved in determining the treatment and diagnostic protocals today. I am working on my own elimination. A treatment plan will be generated if you do not require further evaluation and your prescription or treatment given.  Of course human intervention will made as necessary but only if deemed so by AI or demanded by you (which will be an added cost). Think of the number of nursing and doctor hours saved. Also imagine the speed of treatment. Of course there will be significant problems, but it WILL be implemented. 

Pharmacists will be reduced similarly if not more in hours. I don’t recommend this field for future employment at all. It will be completely automated. 

Truck drivers will be halved in less than 7 years with AI driving.

Why do we need teachers? For that matter why have physical schools? Seriously think about it. We can use a home laptop right now and better educate virtually any age group than an average school does and in half the time or less. Not to mention the wasted minds that are resulted from poor teachers and curriculum. Think of the physical plant and transportation savings. ENORMOUS. But what about the teaching jobs? Where will we be able to create the replacements for their jobs?

This wave of disruptive technology is happening right now. Its accelerating and its going to be staggering in its effects on our social and economic impact. AI will evolve rapidly. Its rapidity will be devastating. As Elon Musk and Stephen Hawkins have already publicly noted it has the potential to eventually destroy mankind on Earth. Musk recognizes the danger down the road, but very few recognize the immediate danger of what is about to take place economically. Just try and stop it. You cannot. What you better work on is how you can adjust to it and profit from it. Think in terms of where it will create needs. People will gravitate towards areas of needs that are only just now appearing.