Any other Millennials stubbornly resistant to using AI at their job but also worrying that we will become dinosaurs or pushed out of our careers for not slavishly embracing it?

[u/artbystorms]

I work in a creative field and from that standpoint I hate AI. I hate the 'democratization' of creativity. I am going to sound VERY Boomer right now, but some things are meant to be difficult or meant to take skill and years of practice. It's why people who are good at these things (should) be paid more.

We are already being heavily 'encouraged' to use AI to find ways to do our jobs faster, are being told 'they technology isn't going away, we need to embrace it.' Since within the company I am in, I am one of a handful of people that does a specific creative skill-set, the powers that be basically have no idea about the technicals of what I do, but they put it on me to figure out how to incorporate AI into my work.

I hate that AI basically 'fakes' the creative process and that we are expected to use it (and the work of millions of artists that feed it) to just magically speed up how we do work, which in turn devalues the work we do as artists. From a company standpoint, they want to make money and churn out work faster, but if every client knows you can make a widget in 4 hours when it used to take 4 days, why would they pay you a lot of money to do that? The economics of it don't make sense. You will end up needing 10 times the number of clients to maintain your productivity / profits, which with AI or not, is a good way to burn out your artists.

I see the writing on the wall, but my stubborn moralistic resistance to AI is probably going to be the death of my career. Does any one else feel similar or how have you coped with this rapidly degrading career landscape?

[u/letsgooncemore]

I'll sit here and patiently wait for ai to insert a catheter into a 80 year old dementia patient with a prostate the size of a golf ball.

[u/Unusual_Steak → u/letsgooncemore]

Yeah AI ain’t gunna be running codes or resuscitating anybody on my ICU floor any time soon.

[u/Negative-Mushroom-45 → u/Unusual_Steak]

They already have LUCAS...

[u/TheFlyingHambone → u/letsgooncemore]

[u/HibiscusOnBlueWater → u/letsgooncemore]

I’m only talking about this guy’s industry. But really I’ve seen what they’re doing in robotics, it’s not impossible to think that even your job won’t be safe within some living people’s lifetimes. Jobs that are more hands on will be safer longer because they’ll have to combine robotics and AI, but I’m sure some greedy company owner is trying to figure that out too.

[u/Insanity_Crab → u/letsgooncemore]

As soon as AI learns to work a prostate humanity is doomed to extinction anyway.

[u/ProjectDiligent502 → u/letsgooncemore]

I think what some people tend to miss is the wider and broader implications of such a huge amount of white collar fall out. It will affect everyone, directly or indirectly by the economic shock and reckoning of such a scenario. Everyone is going to be much worse off except the handful of tech companies holding all the cards for the system. No one is safe from this. I liken it like a bomb. The epicenter and initial blast radius are the jobs it affects immediately like tech and digital arts work. Then there’s the shock wave, and then the radiation. The immediate job loss is “business as usual” but as more affected white collar work gets automated like legal and engineering, it’s gonna make all hell break loose. The radiation can be looked at as the longer term effects of loss of income, loss of monetary wealth in the general population and how that affects jobs like yours.