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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8869932" data-attributes="member: 4534">Some of us have already seen it come.&nbsp; In another thread, I mentioned Fukoku Mutual Life Inurance who fired 34 full time equivalent employees and replaced them with IBM's Watson Explorer.&nbsp; We're not too far from a future where insurance companies eleminate the majority of their actuary teams as it will mostly be done by computers.&nbsp; I imagine a few data analyst positions will be eliminated throughout many industries as well.&nbsp; A few years back, my company eliminated every assistant position at the company except for executive assistants.&nbsp; With Outlook and other technologies, their services were largely redundant.&nbsp; And whenever they get around to getting AI to drive vehicles, the trucking industry will adopt it which will eliminate roughly 2,000,000 jobs in the United States alone.&nbsp; Historically, truck driving has been a fairly good occupation allowing Americans with little to no education to make a decent living (that has become less true in recent decades though).&nbsp; Now I'm not going to argue the sky is falling.&nbsp; But these kind of changes will have short term costs even if the long term benefits are worth it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8869932, member: 4534"] Some of us have already seen it come. In another thread, I mentioned Fukoku Mutual Life Inurance who fired 34 full time equivalent employees and replaced them with IBM's Watson Explorer. We're not too far from a future where insurance companies eleminate the majority of their actuary teams as it will mostly be done by computers. I imagine a few data analyst positions will be eliminated throughout many industries as well. A few years back, my company eliminated every assistant position at the company except for executive assistants. With Outlook and other technologies, their services were largely redundant. And whenever they get around to getting AI to drive vehicles, the trucking industry will adopt it which will eliminate roughly 2,000,000 jobs in the United States alone. Historically, truck driving has been a fairly good occupation allowing Americans with little to no education to make a decent living (that has become less true in recent decades though). Now I'm not going to argue the sky is falling. But these kind of changes will have short term costs even if the long term benefits are worth it. [/QUOTE]

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