Laut einer Umfrage befürchten 53 % der Amerikaner, dass KI ihnen die Arbeit wegnehmen könnte

From the article 

More than half of Americans − 53% − fear artificial intelligence could cost them or someone in their household a job, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds.

The findings come as companies ramp up AI investments while trimming their workforces, fueling concern across demographics. Anxiety about job losses was consistent across age, gender and education levels, though Democrats were more likely than Republicans to express concern.

>53% of Americans fear AI could take their jobs, poll finds

Then the article points to a survey with this question:

>Are you concerned that AI will put you or someone in your household out of work?

If you have a household of 5 people they can all be worried about Marry Beth’s job but that doesn’t mean all 5 of them fear their own job will be taken. Gainsville changed the title for their version in a way that is not accurate to the data, knowing most people just read the title and would be misinformed.

The article that Gainsville references and copied from had a proper title:

>Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

I think about it sometimes. I’m a program manager. I’m already using AI to do a lot of my job regarding building story level reporting layers and presentations. I thought I was pretty good with Excel, but I’d be in classes for months just to start learning all the functions I’d need to figure out, and then months more of application, to do what I asked Claude to do and accomplished in about 11 iterations over 40 minutes.

As long as I have the people aspect of the job, I‘ feel like I’m good, but I already flipped on ChatGPT into convo mode while my wife and I were driving and… that bitch was pretty fucking witty and likeable. God damnit.

I feel like it’s gonna help me. Ten years from now, who knows? I’ll be retired anyways.

Not a lot of people going into my field at the moment and AI can’t touch it. However I fear that anything my kids are interested in doing is on its way out. 

If half of the country is out of a job, then the problem suddenly become a problem for the rich and not the poor.

I’m a cybersecurity consultant. While I suppose there could be a future advent that puts my career in jeopardy, I think that’s farther off than I have to worry about right now. My work uses a lot of different agents, and they can’t even connect information from product management to our documentation to things our main LOB product can actually do.

And it’s not like they’ve just invested in shitty AI tools. The company has a $12Bn valuation and like $1.3Bn in funding; I have access to every single major commercial AI tool available.

I’m honestly surprised. I was expecting more people to fear this.

I’m fearful that greedy and stupid and shortsighted CEOs/managers who don’t actually know how to best use AI are looking at the superficial accomplishments of it thinking that it’s good enough to justify removing humans out of the entire equation.

I’m a software engineer. I use AI all the time and I hope it consistently gets better so I don’t have to code as much myself. Because a lot of work out there can be partially automated it should let us move on to higher level, more human-facing decision-making and design work. In fact we’re already at the point where my teammates and I are able to dish out a substantial amount of coding work that’s needed to build an application BEFORE designs and business requirements are finally agreed upon, and any changes to the overall design are then done after the fact. On paper, having AI on my side should let you at least keep the same amount of people in a team while multiplying your total coding productivity.

If AI can reach the sophistication needed to do a task then the job should shift to focusing on the parts that aren’t suited for AI rather than completely replacing the human.

Hot take: I don’t want to be in a position where my job only exists because of laws and arbitrary decisions, or because the amount of tokens needed to do the work is too expensive even when it is clearly capable of doing it without these blockers. Same thing goes for other jobs where AI is taking an effect on hiring. It’s ultimately a battle against higher ups who don’t know how to actually wield the power of these tools.

Also of course there’s the need for people who actually need to know how to do things „manually“ when things break or go horribly wrong.

Another 20% are too dumb to see what’s coming or in denial.

I dont fear it will happen, I know it will happen. All drivers have tablets that actively track our driving, updating routes based on what we do. Not only will I eventually be replaced I am training the computer that will do it.

As someone living paycheck to paycheck, it’s depressing to just wait for how my entire department’s gonna get wiped out