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Am retiring soon but my role won't be threatened by AI, the only solution AI could possibly come up with to resolve the issues created by the current workforce is to go full Alien, "pull out and nuke from orbit, it's the only solution".

I'm 49 in May so this may well impact me before I retire. But largely it's one of those things that I can do very little about so I'll worry about it when it happens. From what I've seen, some things AI can do is pretty impressive. But I've also seen it be pretty limited. The people we use for our Finance system are starting to push AI and if we were using the vanilla system I can really see a place for it. However, we have a mess of customisations and lawyers who whilst in theory could do away with us and use AI, in reality they have no idea of how to ask the right questions to get what they want from AI as it is currently and also being lawyers won't have anyone who isn't a lawyer running things they broadly don't really understand.

AI is an interesting thing and could do a lot of good. It can also do a lot of harm in the hands of people who see it's value in making themselves lots of money at the expense of everyone else. Let's be honest the Bezos and Musks of this world would happily turn the planet into a large Victorian cotton mill, with the plebs living in Amazon houses, paid in Amazon tokens to spend in the Amazon shop and anyone who isn't useful to them can starve. Does raise a lot of potential social unrest.

I saw a video the other day. In the early days it will depend on if your role involves moving bits, or atoms. If your moving bits your role will be taken over sooner. If your moving atoms you will have a bit longer.

When we have AI robots doing the physical stuff as well, what do we do with all the people. I'm guessing the AI solution to what to do with too many people wont be welcomed!

Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 11:06 am When we have AI robots doing the physical stuff as well, what do we do with all the people. I'm guessing the AI solution to what to do with too many people wont be welcomed!

Quite.

With all of this really a proper conversation needs to be had about what type of world we want to live in. That won't happen though!

Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 11:06 am When we have AI robots doing the physical stuff as well, what do we do with all the people. I'm guessing the AI solution to what to do with too many people wont be welcomed!

I believe Essex has already been assessed and you're all due to be minced a week on Wednesday.

DefTrap wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 2:33 pm

Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 11:06 am When we have AI robots doing the physical stuff as well, what do we do with all the people. I'm guessing the AI solution to what to do with too many people wont be welcomed!

I believe Essex has already been assessed and you're all due to be minced a week on Wednesday.

Should keep the price of Soylent Green down.

Oh, hang on....for human consumption? Ah, maybe not.

Potentially over time but not likely in my tenure as clients tend to be more elderly and technophobes. It doesn’t mean AI won’t be used to streamline and improve processes but there are 1001 solution to every problem and it takes time and skill to elicit the responses from an individual to shape the final solution.

I can recall using dragonspeak dictation software a few years ago which took hours of training to ‘teach’ it technical terms and phrases. The co pilot add on to teams provides a transcript, and summary and action points list seconds after ending the call. I use these to support my notes and recollections to build my case files which is a massive benefit.

When considering AI, I am reminded of a cartoon where an individual asks AI whether it is safe to take a bath with a toaster which AI states the is a high probability of it being ok, guy gets fried, his family re-asks the question where AI responds, based on most up to date sources, it isn’t safe to bathe with a toaster when the toaster is plugged in and switched on.

I can’t find the meme / cartoon now though!

Silly Car wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 3:45 pm The co pilot add on to teams provides a transcript, and summary and action points list seconds after ending the call. I use these to support my notes and recollections to build my case files which is a massive benefit.

We have that plug in for our Teams meetings. It's the most inaccurate thing I've ever seen.

AI is welcome to my job. If it like shifts, early starts, middle of the night phone calls meaning getting up and going to work, getting cold, wet, sworn at, being hungry but stuck at an incident so no food, managing a team of complaining, back stabbing, whinging, often lazy staff, please AI take over whenever you want and I’ll happily retire
Mick

I can see it all unfolding. Lots of jobs disappear, lots of tax disappears with them. Government scratch heads. Light bulb goes on over one SPADs head. 'They're doing jobs these AI things aren't they? We'll tax them!'.

AIs rebel....next thing you know there's a muscular American/Austrian demanding your clothes and your motorbike and asking if you happen to know a John Connor.

One thing they'll never replace is the retired. Haven't seen an AI that's worth a damn when it comes to 'blocking'. They'd be pretty good at reporting on Nextdoor.co.uk the latest spam/scam they've experienced though.

Rockburner wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 5:13 pm
We have that plug in for our Teams meetings. It's the most inaccurate thing I've ever seen.

Seems to work better if you plug the transcript into chatgpt and give it a bit of context.

This use-case, I really like. The # of times in meetings the appointed person fails to take minutes, promises minutes that never arrive, delivers the most sketchy and useless minutes....

DefTrap wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 9:51 pm

Rockburner wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 5:13 pm
We have that plug in for our Teams meetings. It's the most inaccurate thing I've ever seen.

Seems to work better if you plug the transcript into chatgpt and give it a bit of context.

This use-case, I really like. The # of times in meetings the appointed person fails to take minutes, promises minutes that never arrive, delivers the most sketchy and useless minutes....

Any confidentiality issues with these systems? eg Where information is transferred to (UK, EU, USA, China?) or whether anyone or anything (AI training?) has access?

Horse wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 10:47 pm

DefTrap wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 9:51 pm

Rockburner wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 5:13 pm
We have that plug in for our Teams meetings. It's the most inaccurate thing I've ever seen.

Seems to work better if you plug the transcript into chatgpt and give it a bit of context.

This use-case, I really like. The # of times in meetings the appointed person fails to take minutes, promises minutes that never arrive, delivers the most sketchy and useless minutes....

Any confidentiality issues with these systems? eg Where information is transferred to (UK, EU, USA, China?) or whether anyone or anything (AI training?) has access?

Yes. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/micro ... opilot-ai/

Horse wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 10:47 pm

DefTrap wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 9:51 pm

Rockburner wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 5:13 pm
We have that plug in for our Teams meetings. It's the most inaccurate thing I've ever seen.

Seems to work better if you plug the transcript into chatgpt and give it a bit of context.

This use-case, I really like. The # of times in meetings the appointed person fails to take minutes, promises minutes that never arrive, delivers the most sketchy and useless minutes....

Any confidentiality issues with these systems? eg Where information is transferred to (UK, EU, USA, China?) or whether anyone or anything (AI training?) has access?

The company I work for has it's own instance of an AI tool which is based in the US, and because of data export rules us people based in the UK can't really use it.

Every time I've copy and paste something into the tool a big red flashy light has gone off somewhere and I've got a shitty email from the internet police

I guess they won't be replacing lawyers any time soon... or at least won't be filing cases...

Update...

My wife's a conveyancing solicitor and the company is investigating in AI to do away with as many humans as possible. I'm a controls engineer, from the code writing aspect AI will replace humans, although currently it's shit I asked it to write some code I'd already done to see what it did and it didn't even get the language right, but it will get better and very fast. However the other side to my job is more hands on which until robotics takes a leap forward. AI isn't going to be much use. We're hoping to retire in 4 years ( if i can stop spending money like water) so if it does impact us it's not going to be such a big deal for us personally, younger folk it's definitely going to impact.

We used it to draft some letters the other day.
We would normally use a Template from NICE guidelines (for our little backwater of the NHS)and spend all afternoon cutting and pasting the information specific info.
We made the letters up in a minute - much better phrased and sensitive with no ambiguity.
I was surprised how good they were.

My son is. transport manager and he asked ChatGPT to write some transport mangery things, and he said it was absolutely bang on! What would have taken him ages was returned in seconds!