cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35786855
- The unemployment rate among college graduates has risen, with majors exposed to AI, including computer engineering design and architecture, among those affected.
- In addition, job growth across several white-collar sectors has been tepid, pointing to AI’s growing role in the workforce.
- Certain tech industries, including cloud, web search and computer systems design, stopped growing at the end of 2022, just after the release of ChatGPT.
If your workplace tries replacing your coworkers with LLMs, you should go on strike. If you don’t feel like you have the capacitor to go on strike, you should build it. Now.
While I’m 110% in favor of unions, they should concentrate on retraining. Those jobs won’t come back, and forcing companies to keep using labor will make many companies less competitive, and will kill many of them, being counter productive in the long run.
We need different strategies.
Maybe if AI actually existed that would be a valid concern.