A.I is not here to steal your job!

[Youngrebel]

Al was never created to steal peoples job, rather it was created to improve skills and reduce stress for people who can make proper use of it. With the help of Al programmers can a lot of things faster compare to when they do them manually, apart from programmers content creators, business owners and many others can also achieve their goals quickly with the help of Al. I don't really see Al as a treat to humans, rather I see it as helpful tool to humans.

You have a point, Ai wasn't created to take people's jobs away but it's meant for people to take advantage of it so that their work can be much easier for them. In the aspect of programming I will use this to make an example of a misconception people mostly have about the use of Ai to do this, some people think just because they can write codes using Ai then it means they no longer need programmers, that's an uni intelligent thought because it's one thing to write codes and it's Another thing to know what to do with them.

In your core strength or Field Ai can make your work more easier and faster, this is the reason why it is important for people not to feel threatened by It, you should embrace it instead and try to learn more about it to make you more professional In what you do.

[WatChe]

To me I don't really have that much fear on this speculations of AI taking over human job, no doubt the advancement on this AI of a thing is really alarming but I still stand my ground that there's no way AI will take over human job totally there are some certain things that will still require humans services, at least it's still the human that invented it all so there must be a way to fit in both the AI and human in terms of some certain jobs, to me the human still have the upper hand on this whole matter trust me.

The world is always changing and we can't say with certainty that what roles will be left for humans and what roles will be taken over by AI in coming years. We just need to keep an eye on AI and keep ourselves updated about latest trends of AI, just in case we are fired by our company or lose online work due to AI then we will be in a position to get started with AI. This is no more a buzz word but a reality and we need to embrace that change with open arms.  

[Crypto_Timothy]

I was having a conversation with some friends around AI, mind you they all use technology to draw (digital arts and stuff) and I said to them, as you use these technologies as a tool to make your art better and easy for you that's simply what AI is, a tool and what you decide to do with that tool depends on you and your creativity. If you know your job requires your creativity, I don't think you will ever be afraid of AI but it is when you know you don't really contribute to the overall workflow and all you do is just 'function' that's when you will be afraid and full of hate for AI, that's just my take

[lionheart78]

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 I highly agree to what @OP is saying.  AI is not here to take our jobs but to enhance our performance producing more quality works with less hours needed.  But we cannot deny the fact that with every development and implementation of these technological development, there are jobs and works that were greatly affected to the point of not needing that much manpower resulting to loss of jobs and lay outs.

Now if our work or job is highly affected by AI development, we should be prepare to embrace them and make it a tool to help us more valuable in the eyes of the employers or better make the industry see that it needs a new set of job that produce much quality works using AI implementations.

[Ziskinberg]

So the real question is not; will AI take my job?

The real question is; Am I willing to learn the tool for my advantage in my required field?
 

Let's not deceive ourselves; AI will make many jobs obsolete, and many people will lose their jobs. According to Goldman Sachs, artificial intelligence (AI) could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, such as customer service representatives, receptionists, accountants, bookkeepers, salespeople, and research and analysis. Warehouse jobs, Insurance underwriting, and others will be massively affected. So yes, AI will make people lose their jobs.

With every new invention, workers lose their jobs. But the unemployed will have to move to other sectors. And as the OP said, learning about AI is important if you want to switch to a new sector. So I also agree that AI is not taking our jobs, but those who use it will take them. Over the years, I have been an advocate of integrating AI into your job tasks. AI makes jobs faster, more accurate, and cheaper. And this is what most organisations want from staff.

While I agree on the part that AI may steal our job if we ignore our responsibility as a worker, but let's not forget that AI also cannot fully succeed without a person behind it, operating it, giving commands and setting the goals, or designing the system. AI still need our guidance and assistance so they can also perform the task well that are given to them.

AI still need us, and we need AI as well. If we want the best outcome regarding our job, therefore human and AI should work hand in hand.

[rachael9385]

Instead of being worried about Ai taking your jobs the main thing you should be focused on is how to adapt to the system to make sure that you can use Ai to your advantage, those that think critically actually knows this.  Ai improves the results you get from doing a particular task meaning that you can maintain relevance in what you do using Ai. An there are also some jobs that will always need humans, So cannot take over a every job the way some people think, it is about placing yourself in that position now.

[viljy]

This topic caught my eye again. AI has made incredible progress over the past few years thanks to the invention of transformer architecture, which appeared thanks to the work on creating a translator. The translator was created, among other things, to replace human translators. That's how big language models appeared. Have people who translate lost their jobs? - In general, yes!

And this has always been the case in the history of progress! Let's take the simplest example - the first looms were created to increase output and at the same time replace weavers. In general, the widespread introduction of machines and machine tools has always reduced the number of workers required (from miners to truckers, who are now being replaced by unmanned trucks). The intensification and mechanization of agriculture occurred to replace the peasants.

At first, the peasants turned into the proletariat. Then the proletariat turned into the precariat. Now even the salariat is no longer needed. They are told: study vibe coding, master AI, and we will choose one of the best out of a thousand... And what should the others do? - "They didn't fit into the market," Chubais would say (This is his famous phrase in response to the question: Why did your reforms kill tens of millions of people). So AI was created precisely to put most people out of work.

P.S. To be fair, progress has always had one more goal - military use. Which is also, in general, the pursuit of profit (to take everything away from the defeated)

[Queentoshi]

Instead of being worried about Ai taking your jobs the main thing you should be focused on is how to adapt to the system to make sure that you can use Ai to your advantage,

This is the exact logic that I have because if the biggest threat has been identified as artificial intelligence, then it becomes easier for you to tackle it by becoming equipped with making use of this AI's to be better at your output.
Identifying the problem and not making any move to try solving it will become the challenge and major problem for many people because they will be laid of work as a result of their poor output. Those are the people who will be replaced by AI.

[Antotena]

Instead of being worried about Ai taking your jobs the main thing you should be focused on is how to adapt to the system to make sure that you can use Ai to your advantage, those that think critically actually knows this.  Ai improves the results you get from doing a particular task meaning that you can maintain relevance in what you do using Ai. An there are also some jobs that will always need humans, So cannot take over a every job the way some people think, it is about placing yourself in that position now.

Some jobs are best done with AI than a person can ever deliver. I saw a debate recently about who is going to deliver, like higher an AI to do a programming job for you or rather hire a person to do the job but from the replies that I saw, many people don't know how AI work. You can make an AI to do a job for you and it will do it perfectly but you are going to use the rest of your days to do debugging and look to some things so it doesn't break the existing things you have broken.

There is nothing you can't do with AI but even as they are good, they are have limitations to how they fit into your work whether it's a new work or old work. There are some programs you will write with AI that you are going to to need another programmer to review the gibberish it has written for you. There are some AI that may even take control of your work space that's why it's important you don't have to expose everything about your work to AI.

[DiMarxist]

Take a deep breath. The robots are not forming a union against you.  But someone using AI well, they might quietly take the opportunities you keep postponing.

People should know and learn how to use technology to their advantage, instead of trying to blame technology and seeing it as a bad thing that is here to stealing someone's Job. People should look at the better part of technology such as the problems that it solves when compared to human efforts over time.

People should know that times has changed, and that the working environment too, is undergoing a revolution. That is why we are seeing the rise of technology such AI which is here to enhance human efforts because, the fact is that humans are limited in nature. Just imagine someone in the office is given an assignment which looks bulky, and may take days or even weeks to finish it. But with AI that is done in a matter of minutes or hours.

At this point in time it's now left for us to adapt, these technology which is definitely going to be more useful to human . No job is going to be stolen from anyone because, anyone who thinks that AI is going to steal their jobs is just lazy .

[viljy]

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On an individual level is something that I have been talking about, AI in most cases does not amplify skill at all. We already have some preliminary studies of good quality that show a very strong deterioration of skills for people that rely on AI and the effect is even stronger with children. They ability to write, do math, language, critical thinking and creativity all start going down harshly as they start relying on AI. So who can talk about any kind of amplification? That is more an extermination of human capability than any kind of amplification.

This is also an important side effect. This is similar to how, with the advent of calculators, people forgot how to count in their minds. Or rather, they were too lazy to count in their minds at first, and then they forgot how.

By the way, if you think on a global level, you can make some more very fantastic assumptions. Which, however, fits perfectly into the logic of the upcoming social changes. With the development of genetic engineering, future elites will begin to change bodies. The main purpose of the modifications will be to prolong life and maximize pleasure. That is, the hedonistic elite of the future will have a developed tongue and stomach to better enjoy the taste of food and consume more different dishes. They will have hypertrophied developed genitals, and perhaps even from both sexes, in order to experience the full range of pleasures.

But genetically bred scientists may not have bodies and digestive systems at all and will be one head with a huge brain fed through tubes.  What would such a society be like? The Roman Empire! Only there, the patricians at the feasts vomited up the dishes they had eaten in order to fit new food into their stomachs, and the "new patricians" would have modified stomachs. Management and law enforcement will be handled by AI and robots.

Will such a society be sustainable? In which there is no progress (except for research on the issue of immortality for the elite), and no movement on the social ladder is possible. By the way, the reproduction of the elite will also stop as soon as the elite attains immortality.

[Ashawowo(OS)]

You have a point, Ai wasn't created to take people's jobs away but it's meant for people to take advantage of it so that their work can be much easier for them. In the aspect of programming I will use this to make an example of a misconception people mostly have about the use of Ai to do this, some people think just because they can write codes using Ai then it means they no longer need programmers, that's an uni intelligent thought because it's one thing to write codes and it's Another thing to know what to do with them.

We can see from companies like Klarna, Ford, and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia who started rehiring workers when previous AI integrations failed to meet up with expectation in replacing human judgement. These are enough reason for you to know that AI is not there to relief you of your job if you are not just the average Joe.

Human judgement is remains necessary in a workforce, but we cannot deny AI makes jobs faster, but over reliance on it makes the person using it an idiot, AI is not near perfect, Human judgement is needed to access the details of AI work and ensure its conformity to established standards. This is why the most in demand people are those who can increase their productivity with the use of AI. AI cannot work standalone, it needs human validation of its results.

[Bitcoinislife09]

I think people who see AI as villain are the people who refuse to accept change or innovation. These people are more likely used to traditional ways of doing things that the thought of having AI in this generation is a taboo. But I believe, if these people will widen their viewpoint and find the positive things that they can do with AI, they will understand that AI was never made to replace humans in their job, but it was made as tool that will make things or workloads more efficient and effective.

[Selaphiel]

Take a deep breath. The robots are not forming a union against you.  But someone using AI well, they might quietly take the opportunities you keep postponing.

Here's the truth nobody is saying loudly enough; AI is not the competition, it is the advantage.

The people getting ahead right now are not smarter, more talented, or more gifted. They have learned to work with the machine instead of treating AI like a villain in a science-fiction movie.
The writers using AI to brainstorm faster are not lazy, they are publishing while others are waiting for the perfect opportunity.
The small business owners using AI for customer replies is not cutting corners, they are buying back hours to actually grow the business.
The students using AI to study smarter are not cheating, they are preparing for a world that has already changed while some people are debating whether AI is a passing trend in 2026.

The tool does not replace skill, it amplifies skill.

If you are good, AI helps you become faster, if you are excellent, AI helps you become dangerous. And I'd you refuse to learn it, well, at least your excuses will remain 100% human.

So the real question is not; will AI take my job?

The real question is; Am I willing to learn the tool for my advantage in my required field?

Right now we can say that AI can help but in reality especially in the future it can still be a reason to reduce the work of most people
because of AI. Of course through AI it will make it easier and faster to do the jobs that an ordinary worker does in any business sectors in all countries.
So I don't believe that it won't affect people's jobs.

[Emeraldo]

I think people who see AI as villain are the people who refuse to accept change or innovation. These people are more likely used to traditional ways of doing things that the thought of having AI in this generation is a taboo. But I believe, if these people will widen their viewpoint and find the positive things that they can do with AI, they will understand that AI was never made to replace humans in their job, but it was made as tool that will make things or workloads more efficient and effective.

There are people that are building AI everyday to make them mkre smarter and accurate in their doings.
AI should not make us feel relaxed when we can become a better people and generations that will not be relying on the easiest part of a job. AI is making so many people lazy and this will become a problem if AI becomes advanced and we are being taxed on a  weekly basis for us to use the AI tools to get work done as fast as possible. AI is going dominate so many sectors and it's should be what we shiuld be preparing for before that time comes.

[bangjoe]

While I agree on the part that AI may steal our job if we ignore our responsibility as a worker, but let's not forget that AI also cannot fully succeed without a person behind it, operating it, giving commands and setting the goals, or designing the system. AI still need our guidance and assistance so they can also perform the task well that are given to them.

AI still need us, and we need AI as well. If we want the best outcome regarding our job, therefore human and AI should work hand in hand.

Although it is true that there are some jobs that can be done by ai so that it is possible to reduce the number of workers but even so, of course, there are jobs that cannot be replaced by ai, because ai only works online and they cannot work physically so physical work will remain safe even though currently there are robots that are favored but I think they will not be able to do physical work to the fullest.

In my country there is a government that shows off its robots by spending a considerable budget and they proudly show it off but as we know the robot is still a robot that is definitely most likely there is a mistake with the system so that it makes mistakes in doing its job and even endangers others around it. I agree more with your point that it is better for humans and AI to work together, rather than AI taking over all the jobs previously performed by humans.

[tabas]

I think people who see AI as villain are the people who refuse to accept change or innovation. These people are more likely used to traditional ways of doing things that the thought of having AI in this generation is a taboo. But I believe, if these people will widen their viewpoint and find the positive things that they can do with AI, they will understand that AI was never made to replace humans in their job, but it was made as tool that will make things or workloads more efficient and effective.

Change is hard to accept but, it's true that this is an innovation that can't be stopped. Like in the past where the internet era has started and people have doubted it. But those who adopted and accepted it at first were the ones who are able to take advantage of it. So, we have to adopt it and accept what it can offer and learn how we're going to use it. If there are some related skills that we can also get from it by training, we have to do it. There are too many things to worry about and, we cannot control that massive layoff which makes the reason of AI significant with that change.

[Halifat]

I think people who see AI as villain are the people who refuse to accept change or innovation. These people are more likely used to traditional ways of doing things that the thought of having AI in this generation is a taboo. But I believe, if these people will widen their viewpoint and find the positive things that they can do with AI, they will understand that AI was never made to replace humans in their job, but it was made as tool that will make things or workloads more efficient and effective.

A lot of people are making real money with this AI and the funniest part is that there is no any stress in what they are doing but they are able to maintain their consistency, the way some people see this AI is absolutely different, they thoughts it is something different entirely which is where some of them it wrong, the coming of AI is to help us improve the work that we are doing with less stress. If anyone decided to disassociate themselves from AI will definitely be among the people that AI will replace. AI save time and energy and 30 is what make it so important in this our era.

[r_victory]

For now, artificial intelligence is practically accessible to everyone, and those who learn to use it efficiently will have an advantage both in terms of job opportunities and in starting their own business. For me, it's just another skill to learn. Lately, I've seen companies rehiring employees who were "replaced" by AI, and the reason is that AI has become more expensive than the employees. They won't cease to be used, but at the moment they aren't as financially viable as they seemed.

[EarnOnVictor]

Take a deep breath. The robots are not forming a union against you.  But someone using AI well, they might quietly take the opportunities you keep postponing.
Here's the truth nobody is saying loudly enough; AI is not the competition, it is the advantage.

You sounded so confident, but if you think so cleverly, you would realise that you are one-sided in a situation you should have balanced. Is AI stealing our jobs, oh, yes, that's very true, and the examples are obvious everywhere.

Nonetheless, is AI also creating jobs, opportunities, ease, etc elsewhere, yes also to that. This is why your tone should rather find a balance rather than making it look as if it's all positive for humanity, no!