Walk on the money for the rest of us, this is a personal financial show on money, how

it works, how to invest it, and how to live without worrying about it.

I'm your host David Stein, today is episode 417, it's titled, Will Generative AI Take

Over Your Job?

Almost eight years ago in September 2015, we released episode 72, Will a Robot Take Over

Your Job.

It concluded that computers and robots will eventually be able to do everything.

But as humans, we can decide what we are willing to let robots do and what we want humans

to do.

Two years later in December 2017, we revisited the topic in episode 184, Massive job losses

are inevitable, but there will still be work.

We discussed how automation and technology, including robots, has always led to massive

job losses.

But the increases in efficiency and productivity lead to higher overall average incomes that

can be spent on goods and services, and that spending those higher incomes create more

jobs.

Now that's not to suggest that some individuals are impacted, they lose their work due

to automation, and maybe aren't able to get back on their feet.

But across the entire economy, higher incomes, due to increased efficiency and productivity,

creates more jobs.

We can think about the jobs in travel-related industries.

Or consider how many more coaches, counselors, therapists, psychologists there are as people

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