{"id":9007,"date":"2023-02-18T07:37:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T06:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/the-ai-industrial-revolution-puts-middle-class-workers-under-threat-this-time\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T07:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T06:37:27","slug":"the-ai-industrial-revolution-puts-middle-class-workers-under-threat-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/the-ai-industrial-revolution-puts-middle-class-workers-under-threat-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI industrial revolution puts middle-class workers under threat this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, leaps in technology replaced low-paid jobs with a greater number of higher-paid jobs. This time, it may be different<\/p>\n<p>The machines are coming and they will eat your job. That\u2019s been a familiar refrain down the years, stretching back to the Luddites in the early 19th century. In the past, step-changes in technology have replaced low-paid jobs with a greater number of higher-paid jobs. This time, with the arrival of artificial intelligence, there are those who think it will be different.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians know that even in the best case AI will cause massive disruption to labour markets, but they are fooling themselves if they think they have years to come up with a suitable response. As the tech entrepreneur Mihir Shukla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/jan\/20\/davos-questions-wef-china-future-ai-jobs\">said at the recent World Economic Forum<\/a> in Davos: \u201cPeople keep saying AI is coming but it is already here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/feb\/18\/the-ai-industrial-revolution-puts-middle-class-workers-under-threat-this-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2e8624b15cabd5d21edf83dfbeefe1c7536165f2\/0_173_3600_2160\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fc9db305439bf04f20f412a16dfcf330\" title=\"The AI industrial revolution puts middle-class workers under threat this time\" \/>In the past, leaps in technology replaced low-paid jobs with a greater number of higher-paid jobs. This time, it may be different<br \/>\nThe machines are coming and they will eat your job. That\u2019s been a familiar refrain down the years, stretching back to the Luddites in the early 19th century. In the past, step-changes in technology have replaced low-paid jobs with a greater number of higher-paid jobs. This time, with the arrival of artificial intelligence, there are those who think it will be different.<br \/>\nPoliticians know that even in the best case AI will cause massive disruption to labour markets, but they are fooling themselves if they think they have years to come up with a suitable response. As the tech entrepreneur Mihir Shukla said at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos: \u201cPeople keep saying AI is coming but it is already here.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, leaps in technology replaced low-paid jobs with a greater number of higher-paid jobs. This time, it may be different The machines are coming and they will eat your job. 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In the past, step-changes in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/the-ai-industrial-revolution-puts-middle-class-workers-under-threat-this-time\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The AI industrial revolution puts middle-class workers under threat this time<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}