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Aren’t white collar jobs the most likely to be replaced?
If factories existed anymore it would be factory jobs. White collar jobs will be replaced in the same way they're always replaced which is that computers get a little better and as a result you don't need to hire the same number of people per unit of work. Or you can hire the same people and have more work.
I work in a factory.
The material handling drone-scooter things they have to replace the forklift operators keep running into shit lol
The warehouse I work at hasn’t started using robot labor to replace humans on the floor yet thanks to the Unions, but they switched 4PL providers to one that uses some robot thing for load planning and it’s been a nightmare.
you gotta find out who's pooping on the factory floor
Sold my soul to the company store
That's why I poop on the factory floor
Factories do exist. We still make a lot of shit, we just don't make a lot of shit that other people want to (or can afford to) buy from us.
With the current LLM or LIM stuff? Unlikely.
LIMs are only used for high quantity quality assurance in factories rn. Mixing the stuff with automation in a way that will actually impact the factory floor is likely a decade off or more, at least in the U.S. Idk how LLMs will ever be able to get into the mix, given how specialized most factory processes actually are. Hell we can't even get CAM programs to automate themselves properly without correction and that shit has been in the work since CAD software was designed.
Most firms that are turning towards automation are not looking to remove workers (if they are competent) just up production quality and quantity and not have to raise wages by lowering basic manual vocational expertise. They are trying to make factory jobs, which had become more specialized with deindustrialization, into more general entry level jobs like the service industry again, where you can more easily plug and play less skilled workers rather than having to have a skilled operator, machinist, welder, etc on a machine for efficiency. Of course, all of this will also require semi-competent manufacturing engineers, which is a very slowly growing field in the U.S, despite being one of the O.G. engineering fields, so it will add white collar jobs.