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Cue the pivot for some “women’s jobs” becoming more “manly”…
an AI bot can’t be trained to take over their daily tasks like sterilizing surgical equipment
…until someone realizes how much of this can be simple automation, AI not needed.
Sterilizing equipment in an autoclave is already pretty automated, it’s just the adding and removing the tools I guess?
I have sterilized equipment in a an operating room. At the hospital I worked at, most instruments got sent to a central processing where there were first given a soak before going into a what was basically a large dish washer. Once the instruments were cleaned, they were sorted by hand and loaded into the appropriate instrument cases before being hand wrapped and taped. Some of the more specialized sets, delicate tools, and scopes were cleaned by myself or another OR aide.
So most surgical tools can definitely be automated but some of the more delicate or specialized tools do require an actual person to clean them.
This was ten years ago so who knows how technology has changed in that time.
I would like to see chatGPT insert a catheter.
Not it
Ai WonT tAkE ouR JobS.
Good? I don’t understand the defense of having more jobs for people.
Genuine question, aside from the creative ventures (which I believe generative AI should never be used for in a professional setting), what’s the value in having people work for work’s sake? Like the monotonous jobs, the jobs that don’t have any real value but still should get done.
I’ve never held a strong identity with my job, and I really don’t understand why others, particularly in America, do.
the reason is because a strong demand for human labor drives wages up.
the free labor market is regulated by supply and demand, i.e. a high demand for human workforce leads to higher prices for that labor (a.k.a wages)
now, if AI takes the jobs, the overall demand for human labor diminishes, and that’s gonna lower the wages even for those jobs who are themselves not affected by AI.
with low wages, people would have to organize and demand Universal Basic Income, but since people in america historically find it difficult to organize and demand something, lots of people are worried that UBI either won’t come or will be too little to live well off it.
