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Jobs are being lost NOW. People are going into automation, and their job is to help their company make money by replacing people with programs and machines. The jobs being lost are not coming back. Some argue that the jobs being lost to automation will simply be replaced by other jobs. But even if these new mystery jobs are eventually created, most experts in the field believe that they would be massively outpaced by the job losses.
So, even before a superintelligent AI threatens us with extinction, the relatively simple programs and machines of today pose a potentially serious economic threat, simply by performing as they were designed.
This article has a slightly more optimistic outlook, even while acknowledging these same concerns:
Full article at LondonCommunityNews