The loss of many traditional jobs in everything from art to healthcare will partly be offset by the creation of new human jobs.
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Primary care doctors who focus on diagnosing known diseases and giving familiar treatments will probably be replaced by AI doctors.
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But precisely because of that, there will be much more money to pay human doctors and lab assistants to do groundbreaking research and develop new medicines or surgical procedures.
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AI might help create new human jobs in another way.
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Instead of humans competing with AI, they could focus on servicing and using AI.
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Instead of humans competing with AI, they could focus on servicing and using AI.
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For example, the replacement of human pilots by drones has eliminated some jobs but created many new opportunities in maintenance, remote control, data analysis, and cyber security.
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As the only species that can actually talk, Homo sapiens is the only one that can lie out loud.
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This capacity gave early human beings a major evolutionary edge.
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They’d already demonstrated their mastery of the deceptive arts by hunting prey with artfully hidden traps or by tricking them into running off cliffs.
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As the human capacity to speak developed, so did our ability not only to trick prey and deceive predators but to lie to other humans.
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This too could be advantageous.
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Those who could persuade members of a rival tribe that a westward-moving heard of caribou had migrated east won a battle in the war for survival.
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Verbal deceitfulness gave early humans such a survival advantage that some evolutionary biologists believe the capacity to speak and the ability to lie developed hand in had.
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Overprotective parents spare kids from all natural consequences.
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Unfortunately, their kids often lack a clear understanding of the reasons behind their parents’ rules.
