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Hot take: AI job displacement is being overblown by people who never had to hire anyone
Last month I hired three new people for my small printing shop in Akron. Two of them came in worried that AI would take their jobs within a year. I sat them down and showed them our actual work orders from 2021 versus this year. We actually have more orders now because AI tools helped us cut design time by about 20 percent, letting us take on extra clients. The problem is nobody talks about the jobs that get created or expanded. Last week I had to add a part time person just to manage our AI proofreading system because it kept flagging things that were fine. I get the fear, I really do, but has anyone else seen actual new roles pop up because of these tools at their workplace?
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bennett.harper11d ago
I'm sorry, did you say two of them were worried AI would replace them in a year? That blows my mind, especially since you just showed them the work orders proving you're hiring more people, not fewer.
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jakeb8111d ago
The real blind spot is how many AI systems are just creating busywork for people to clean up after them.
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reese_lee911d ago
Oh man @jakeb81, you nailed it. I spent 2 hours last week fixing a spreadsheet that AI "summarized" but actually just rearranged the wrong columns.
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