• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    It’s obviously a “glass half full“, “make lemonade” kind of story. I admire their effort to put on a brave face, though.

    My main worry is that when there’s these kind of labor market shocks, not all fields are affected equally. Some jobs are just really hard to automate, and prices shoot up eg in health care hurting people that are often already vulnerable. With the NHS, costs won’t be passed on the users directly, but it will lead to staff shortages and increased waiting.

    Still I look forward to the UK working out the kinks of all these technologies, so we can deploy them widely and at much lower cost globally…,

    • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      UK is importing record numbers of health and social care professionals. No one’s automating nurses and carers.

      General practitioners, maybe. AI can diagnose skin cancer faster and far more efficiently already, and with cancer, early diagnosis is key.