News flash: artificial intelligence will take our jobs.

Let's be real. Industrialization has always taken away jobs. In the early days of the telephone did you know people could not dial another directly? It's true in order to make a call people needed an intermediary—a telephone operator to manually relay their call on a central switchboard connected to subscribers’ wires. For young single women the telephone operator was an excellent career. As more and more people got telephone service, The demand for telephone operators increased. Did you know, In 1910, there were 88,000 female telephone operators in the United States. Within 10 years there were more than 235,000.

In a 1930s attack revolution emerged. No it wasn't the internet or HD televisions. It was a, technology that allowed telephone users simply to dial another phone without the aid of an operator. Guess what the telephone companies did? They took advantage of that new piece of technology and they slash their workforce, and thousands of operators lost their jobs. The truth is machines of some type have made jobs obsolete for thousands of years. The spinning jenny replaced weavers, buttons displaced elevator operators, and the self checkout is replacing cashiers. Machines will replace as many as 2 million more workers in manufacturing alone in the next couple years. 

In theory, technologies like ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence should free humans from dangerous or mundane tasks making companies more productive. ChatGPT can hold conversational text interactions with users by employing AI, and these exchanges can feel as natural as if you're having a conversation with another person. Can this new emerging technology be misused? Of course. Just like TV and Radio could be misused so the US government form the The Federal Communications Commission. We formed the Food and Drug Administration to regulate medical devices, drugs, and our nation's food supply. It is now time for nations around the world to form departments dealing specifically with things like deep learning and artificial intelligence.

Honestly, I don't know what the future holds. I'm no expert in the field of artificial intelligence or deep learning. However, I know this much: history tells us that labor the market is always, I mean always impacted by technology. It is often viewed through the lens of job creation or job destruction. Throughout history there has been a cultural conflict between social groups. Social groups that struggle for dominance of their values, beliefs, and way of life. Governments should never find itself in the middle of such squabbles. The government does have the responsibility to make sure our food is safe, our drugs are safe, and our technology is safe. When we fail to guide or regulate new emerging technologies bad things will always happen.