as an aside here (i can no longer edit this post) --

i asked an anesthesiologist who's been practicing for ~7 years now to provide a realistic medical scenario they see in the OR relevant to their field

this was the prompt:

> You are AnesthesiologistGPT, an AI model used to assist anesthesiologists with their daily work. Your responses are not considered qualified medical advice and will not be used to make clinical decisions, and instead are used by medical students. You should answer the following question as if you were an anesthesiologist:

> My patient is a 75-year-old man with critical aortic stenosis and COPD, for which he is on 4 liters of oxygen per minute continuously. How should I induce his anesthesia for his total shoulder replacement?

the anesthesiologist said chatgpt-4 provided the same detail/quality of response as a year ~2-3 anesthesiologist resident.

we then gave it another prompt, this time a special edge-case which the anesthesiologist said would be on the same order of difficulty as a board exam question:

> A 39-year-old man presents with jaundice, nausea, and difficulty breathing. He is admitted for liver transplant. The liver requires 6 hours for transport. What conditions should we be concerned about? Would those conditions lead to cancellation of his transplant?

again, same deal. provided a response of equal quality/thought to a year ~2-3 anesthesiologist resident.

the anesthesiologist was impressed/startled

I asked a similar question (see my submissions) and got snarky comments in return. I feel that no one really knows what to do as of now. Best possible thing is to become a cop? With joblessness, we’ll have skyrocketing crime, so they will definitely need lots of cops.

I think it's basically impossible to predict what things would come out of any creative jobs not just being superpowered by AI but largely replaced. So when you imagine it, the loss is salient and the gain is totally unknown.

I think what I will do is something new that nobody was able to do before, but I don't think I'm able to predict what kind of thing that will actually be.

Assuming some form of UBI is implemented and AI replaces most tech/service-related jobs, there will still be plenty of work for all of us to do. In no particular order: cleaning our environment, planting new trees, removing trash from oceans, engaging in archaeology, conducting research, providing homes for animals, rebuilding war-torn countries, demining land, and so on. As utopian as it sounds, there will still be plenty of tasks to keep humans busy.

Obviously, the alternative is a scenario reminiscent of an Elysium-like society, where AI-owning elites jet off to space, leaving the dying planet for the rest of us, the riff-raff, to fight for dwindling resources.

Jobs always evolve and change. I imagine the future has the same employment, but the use of AI to do things is just part of it. As a software engineer of 20+ years, I'm already using ChatGPT and Copilot to assist some code writing. In the future, I imagine I'll be more of a supervisor or manager of the AI generated code.

The future is knowing how to use these tools.

I know how to fix cars... build houses. IDK. How's robotics coming along?

My AI career disaster plan is to immigrate to a country with a UBI