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Brace yourself. What may have seemed a fascinating novelty and interesting curiosity, is scaling up and poised for massive deployment. Here's a brief video, sixteen minutes and 14 seconds, updating on Artificial Intelligence (AI) already taking over various job categories -
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A few highlights: 09:55 - unemployment forecast: 42% of registered nurses, 47% of truck drivers, 64% of accountants, 65% of teaching assistants, 89% of fast food workers. 10:39 - 3.8% growth in GDP predicted, consisting of consumer spending and "non-residential fixed investments" 11:17 - top 10% of income earners account for 50% of consumer spending 11:40 - "non-residential fixed investments" means AI data centers (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, etc) 12:00 - top 10% own 90% of stock market 12:15 - average citizens becoming much less of the equation; being eliminated from economy 12:37 - mention of Sam Altman and UBI (Universal Basic Income) 12:55 - mention of top AI executives saying UBI will help unemployed with the AI transition 13:31 - mention of Elon Musk being asked, in an interview, what career advice he would give... causing him to remain silent for 14 seconds... speechless.
Ironically, accompanying this video, there is an AI-generated transcript and an AI-generated summary.
"AI generated video summary: Morgan Hill Farms reveals unexpected garden challenges and canning triumphs. A discussion about AI's potential impact on the economy and jobs follows. Prepare for a surprising perspective on the future of work."
Even though some of our students and kids may be mature and work well, even up to skipping grades, some of them may have only age-appropriate freedoms rather than grade-appropriate freedoms.
For example some teachers may recommend doing most of the organisation for the kid for "maturity" reasons even if a transition may be in the kid's better interest.
The student may also feel unfree if they are working at a much higher level and yet merely have the freedoms of kids that they don't relate to.
How do you deal with this problem? Do you let them have freedoms at their grade level? Date earlier? Not mind as much if they smoke/drink yet somewhat discouraging it? Still giving them a support system to show how more freedom doesn't necessarily mean you as a parent will leave them out to dry in case issues occur?
