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>>dredmo+(OP)
I'm still organising my thoughts on the subject so please feel free to push back.

This ongoing discussion feels classist. I've never seen such strong emotions about AI (and automation) taking blue-collar jobs, some shrugs at most. It's considered an unavoidable given, even though it has been happening for decades. The only difference now is that AI is threatening middle-upper class jobs, which nobody saw coming.

I do not see the difference between both. Can somebody that does explain to me why now is "critical" and not so much before?

>>hector+vg1
I have to wonder whether there's a relationship between the stage you're at in your career and your level of panic over AI. There's a lot of hope among students that a job in the technology sector will pull a person into the middle class -- and with significantly less weird antiquated institutional classism than in other lines of work like law.

Personally, I'm new in my career, and I'd like to not have the rug pulled out from under me. If I were a student again, I would have to consider whether the university debt was going to be worth it in the long term or if I should look at a more traditional field to be in.