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Will AI take our jobs?

Since the dawn of the information age, society has worried about artificial intelligence replacing human labour. We are now seeing rapid advances being made in this technology that makes the question of critical importance. What will the future of automation look like, and will AI take our jobs?

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No: there will always be jobs for humans

This position holds that AI will not take all our jobs—there will always be work for humans. It argues capitalism keeps creating new opportunities for labour, that displacement by technology is historically normal, and that exponential growth never lasts forever.

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Partially: AI will take many jobs, but not all of them

This position holds that AI will take many jobs but not all of them. It argues that AI has already automated much work and will continue to — forcing society to make crucial decisions about the nature of work — but that it may simply let people work less rather than not at all.

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Yes: AI will fully replace humans

This position holds that AI will fully replace human workers. It argues that, as artificial intelligence advances rapidly toward a possible 'singularity', it will become universally cheaper and more efficient than humans at virtually any job, leaving no work that people do better.