Is AI taking away jobs?

When my son was a teenager, he was reading some books and following some people who constantly kept saying, world is going to end, there will be no jobs left, we will be removed from our homes and confined into small places and all these kinds of things. At that age, it's so easy to get brainwashed, and he would keep telling us, there is no point of studying because there are not going to be any jobs, since AI is going to take away all jobs. At that time, I had to step up and show a little of my strict parent's part, pushing him to complete his studies. He was brilliant and I was scared that he should not get carried away in these things and ruin his future. Though he did get carried away but we could control. Today he tells me it was all foolish things.

While yes, AI will take up some jobs and at the same time will also create new jobs. For all through human evolution we have seen these changes. 1 century back, people were doing manual jobs and there were many jobs for them, then changes started happening, automation came into picture and some jobs got cut off and other new jobs got created. And this is going to keep happening for more centuries down the line as well. The fact is that no job can be fully replaced by AI. Statistics show that with AI integration more jobs are created, there are new jobs that are coming up that never existed before.

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Yes, may be, the job type may not be the same but job will be there of different nature. Possibly AI will reshape jobs but not completely replace them. We all are wanting comfort at the end of the day. A couple of years back there were house-helpers to do cleaning work, but now there are robots. Especially in a Indian home, daily sweeping and moping is a necessity and then all the hassles we face with helpers where they are unreliable of their daily attendance. A lot of people are now using these cleaning robots which leaves them with less stress. As for the helpers' work is concerned, he or she will still have work and that will be rather less tedious. People want comfort these days and they are willing to pay a price for it.

Five years back, an open-heart surgery had to be done for my husband. That time the Doctor suggested we go for Robotic surgery, because there is precision in it. Now to think of it, we feel that the Robot has taken away Doctor's job, but that's not the case. The Doctor is the one who will have to program the Robot to do the surgery, without the Doctor's inputs the robot cannot perform surgery. For the Doctor it is good because complex surgeries can be done with great precision and minimal risks and for the patient it is minimal invasive.

For my Son, he is still continuing with his studies and now he focuses on also doing his PhD :-)

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