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- Lots of people are worried AI is going to take a bunch of jobs.
- The fear that new tech will replace workers has been common throughout history.
- And yet here we all are, still with jobs to do.
For decades, there have been fears that new technology was about to wipe out a generation of workers.
The ATM was supposed to wipe out bank tellers. Spreadsheets were meant to wipe out bookkeepers. Robots were going to make humans redundant in manufacturing.
And yet, here we are in 2023, with unemployment in the US at 3.8%, and an estimated 9.6 million jobs available. So what happened?