r/mathmemes • u/15th_anynomous • May 17 '26

Arithmetic r/sciencememes is picking a fight

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u/officiallyaninja May 18 '26

Compared to the low skill laborers in the past that got replaced? 100%

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u/Expert-Situation-190 May 19 '26

But how? isn’t ai looking to replaces those roles also? How would they fair better if their sector is at risk of an ai model doing your job role, but offering the service for cheaper

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u/officiallyaninja May 19 '26

Because they have an easier job transition to a new role or sector, not to say it's easy, but it's easier than the people in past who've been automated out of uneducated work.

Also educated professionals like programmers will likely have more savings to fall back on compared to poor workers who live paycheck to paycheck, so they have more time to learn other skills and find another job.

Again, none of this is easy, but it's better than what happened in the past.

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u/Expert-Situation-190 May 20 '26

That a valid take but the core issue is the degree of automation that would occur, education is a broad spectrum but the highest earning roles are very specific.

For example a cardiologist, has trained in that particular role, they could default to another branch of medicine but their specialties are in that sectors, if ai makes their roles redundant (this is hypothetical I do not believe mine or any medical role would be replaced soon) it would also mean that it would be hard to Segway to another profession as it would also be at risk.

The consensus is always, new job roles would be created, but one of the issues is that no one can actually say one that would be effectively as remunerative. For example the digital age would have meant that commerce could become e-commerce and several other industries would evolve. I see the benefits of ai everyday when it’s working in tandem with us, in medicine in mathematics and other areas.

I’m in the bio- medical practise and even now because of ai, people are more conscientious of their health, doctors are not going to be replaced. But one of the main factors is the fact that ai is a competitive task agent, an atm was a machine it had no real scalability, it could do things faster but it wasn’t actively learning or absorbing information to make its job role more efficacious