Mehr als ein Viertel der Briten geben an, dass sie befürchten, in den nächsten fünf Jahren Arbeitsplätze durch KI zu verlieren

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/25/more-than-quarter-britons-fear-losing-jobs-ai-next-five-years

    Von MetaKnowing

    23 Kommentare

    1. Positronium2 on

      What a future to look forward to, companies laying people off and reducing the cutting jobs all so some already very rich shareholders can make even more money.

    2. Bounty_drillah on

      „AI“ is a figleaf for offshoring so they’re right in that respect.

    3. Should be good news but it isn’t because there is something wrong with our system. The person who won the Noble Prize for economics talked about an economy’s ability to “break down” and start again.

      When the Industrial Revolution happened we had the ability and the power to recognise the need to break down our economy and to re build it around this new model.

      It’s theorised that the Romans never industrialised and maybe even collapsed because the rich slave owners were too powerful and so the idea of mechanical work being done was considered farcical. Why would you want a steam engine when you could just buy these cheap slaves…said the slave owners.

      It’s happening again, the ability to automate jobs should be welcomed and celebrated but instead we’re all anxious because our society refuses to break itself down all because the people at the top worry that the new system won’t keep them there.

    4. SumptuousRageBait1 on

      I don’t think society will allow this to happen. Really anyone who uses a computer should have lost their job when home working became the norm. Why would companies pay UK salaries when they can pay salaries in the global south. There was obviously some intervention to stop this from happening and I am guessing the same will happen with AI.

    5. If Ai or a robot can do your job, you’ll be 100% replaced. That’s how it’s been the last few decades with factories and supermarkets and delivery robots. 

      It wouldn’t be so bad if the rich people paid tax for universal based income. They won’t though, greedy shits 

    6. Outside-Locksmith346 on

      A country of over educated pen pushers that produce nothing.

      „Services“ what a joke.

    7. trendysticks on

      I’m just not sold on AI ever getting good enough to take jobs whilst being cost effective. Running AI costs a fortune already and it’s not good enough yet to take any jobs, and as the models improve the cost to run them increases exponentially.

      I can’t help thinking that AI is a bubble that’s not far from bursting, and if/when it does it may hang around for limited specific uses.

      This idea of world changing AGI seems unlikely to ever happen, simply due to the cost of running it.

    8. Front_Fill1249 on

      As someone who works in a gray area when it comes to AI (teaching), I’m definitely noticing a divide between both coworkers and students who can use it properly, use it improperly, and refuse to use it at all.

    9. Green-Caregiver416 on

      They need heavy AI taxes. And big incentives for employing humans. Not pretending to have the answers but that is the only way we can go forward. Either leads to a UBI for the millions of lost jobs or encourages business to still employ humans

    10. ash_ninetyone on

      If they want to do this, which was the original idea of AI and automation (make machines do work so humans have more personal time), then we need to increase taxes on that to pay a minimum income

      Otherwise what we’re left with is mass unemployment because they’ve been automated into redundancy, with no support being affordable

    11. Important_Ad_7537 on

      There are less high street shops because people chose shopping at Amazon, then complained that there are barbers and vape shops in every corner. This will be the same. If you train AI, a large company will use it against you to take the last penny from your pocket.

    12. tax_economic_rent on

      Assuming this gets worse the implications for capitalism are, ahem, interesting. A post-worker economy can’t run on private credit, because banks are not charities will not lend money to unemployed and non-creditworthy customers. And so that would require ever greater state involvement in controlling the money supply + creating jobs to keep young people from being restless revolutionaries.

      Mechanically, central banks are the monopoly issuer of reserves (final settlement money) and they have an infinite ability to mark-up new reserves. But as things stand there are significant political and institutional blocks to state control of money e.g. monetary financing is not legal (where the BoE buys bonds itself – _operationally_ it could do this indefinitely it is just not currently allowed).

      However, if private banks have no one credit worthy to lend to, then the money supply will grind to a halt and the will collapse, so state-led money creation is the only realistic alternative in a _worst case_ jobs apocalypse scenario.

      Monetary financing or at least yield curve control is basically inevitable.

    13. Will only happened until people are out of work and governments loses tax and nobody can buy thing.

    14. Does your job involve working in an Indian call centre? If not then your job is not under that much threat.

      LLMs will change the way computers work, they won’t replace humans but they will also change the way we work.

      Please dont listen to the CEOs and media who lie to inflate the value of companies that lose money hand ove fist.

    15. Interesting-Pea6466 on

      I don’t need to fear it, I did lose my job because of AI. I then got a new job, lost that one too! The only way I can now do what I love without ai ruining me, is by setting up my own business, but even that is proving to be hard. I’m a graphic designer who has studied the art of visual communication for 10 years. Ai can create a logo in 30 seconds. I can create a logo in 8 hours (give or take). Ai will do it for free, I’ll do it for £400.
      Tell me, how can I start a business when a computer will do everything I do for free and within seconds?
      Now that I’m out of work, I’m claiming benefits. I’m not selling logos for £400. I’m not giving the government any money. I have no pension. This country no longer benefits from me. The second the British government (or rather, the world!) realise that this is going to cost them, the better.

      Dare I add that I have £47k of tuition fee debt? Whenever someone says their child is wanting to study a creative subject I just laugh. RUN. Become a bricklayer. That’s probs the only safe job until they create robots to lay bricks at scale.

    16. freeman2949583 on

      Don’t worry, you can always train to become a technician in one of our many factories… oh, well, you can always move to a country that still has manual laborers. 

    17. Previous_Yard6811 on

      Nobody fears „losing their job“ to AI.

      They fear the resulting economic destitution because for the majority of us, if we don’t work, we circle the drain of privation. If you’re disabled or otherwise unemployed, you will only be kept on a subsistence living to maintain a consumer base.

      In an ideal world, automation would be welcomed with open arms, who the fuck wants to break their back and cripple themselves on jobs the vast majority of people find no real satisfaction in? But we implicitly understand that we won’t be the beneficaries of such advancements.

    18. it’s gonna happen the government has 2 routes to go down pass laws that state that companies have to have a certain percentage be human against A.I if they do that many companies will take there operations abroad or a full economic restructure the government will just have to give you money on a monthly basis. if no one has jobs then no one can pay tax that will be one of the most important points raised

      the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer

    19. ChickenPijja on

      Depends on the field you work in. Thanks to ai I’m kept in a job because it keeps going rogue thinking it knows better. I look forward to the day where it’s good enough to be able to supplement me, rather than having to work against it.

    20. Significant_Sale6172 on

      Our only hope is companies realising that AI is useless for everything excfor nudifying photos.

      I’m already hearing about issues in the medical world, which was one of the few positives cited for AI.

    21. Nobody wins. If AI becomes this mega system for business everyone gets sacked and the consumer economy implodes. If AI fails completely the bubble pops and the economy implodes anyway. Probably leading to a war since that’s what we seem to do as humans when the money runs out.

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