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Ryan Bridge: The AI takeover isn't coming, it's here · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The AI and robot takeover thing isn't coming. It's actually here,
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  Speaker 1: well sort of here. Bunch of stats and data coming
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  Speaker 1: out on this at the moment. So six job ads
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  Speaker 1: mentioning AI doubled in the past year, up four point
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  Speaker 1: one percent month to month. Nikola Willis, you would have
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  Speaker 1: heard this yesterday, reckons that AI is going to help
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  Speaker 1: shave nine thousand jobs off the public service in the
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  Speaker 1: next four years. Meta Facebook, they have this morning started
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  Speaker 1: firing ten percent of their workforce, around eight thousand workers
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  Speaker 1: in the first round, to make way for you guessed it. AI.
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  Speaker 1: The workers are so brassed off about this a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of them are actually signing petitions demanding that Zuckerberg not
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  Speaker 1: collect their computer use data. So anything they're doing on
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  Speaker 1: their laptops, on their work laptops has been collected. That
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  Speaker 1: data is being used to train the AI models that
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  Speaker 1: will replace them. Their work is basically being copy pasted
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  Speaker 1: into a bot that will get rid of them. So
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  Speaker 1: a petition, let's be real, not going to stop this.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing will stop business becoming more efficient. That's what business does.
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  Speaker 1: Resistance is in this case futile. In some cases, the
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  Speaker 1: new technology is being used to plug gaps rather than
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  Speaker 1: create them, which is an interesting irony of all of this.
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  Speaker 1: The new workforce, which is not human but technology. It
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  Speaker 1: works and cuts both ways. Take China for example, their
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  Speaker 1: problem is not a shortage of jobs, but of workers.
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  Speaker 1: The aging population and lack of babies is about to
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  Speaker 1: hurt their factories. They're going to lose thirty seven million
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  Speaker 1: workers in the next ten years. That they need that
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  Speaker 1: is a few holes to fill in some mega factories.
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  Speaker 1: Enter humanoid robots, robots that sort of act like US
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  Speaker 1: Barclays the British Bank reckons sixty percent of those jobs
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  Speaker 1: will be performed by humanoid robots inside the next ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Just imagine that. Basically, there is more chance that your
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  Speaker 1: next new colleague will be a bot or an AI tool,
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  Speaker 1: more chance than ever before. So you either learn to
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  Speaker 1: get along and play nice with them, or they will
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