ChatGPT to Usher in Four-Day Work Week, Suggests Nobel Prize Winner

[Tsing]

Critics of ChatGPT have argued that the chatbot from OpenAI is going to cost many people their jobs, but some seem to think that it could be a blessing for those who manage to dodge the pink slip. During an interview at a conference in Glasgow, Christopher Pissarides, a professor at the London School of Economics and Nobel Prize-winning labor economist, suggested that ChatGPT is going to be a huge boon to productivity, going so far as to allow companies to switch to a four-day work week “easily.” The latest version of ChatGPT, which is based on the more advanced […]

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[Grimlakin]

Sure... when less manpower is needed less working days will be needed to maintain profit margins. Hence a switch to a 4 day work week. Oh and also your pay will be cut by 20% with that 4 day work week because the AI is doing the menial work you would have spent 20% of your time doing.

You know who is going to have plenty of work. The people maintaining the AI hardware and software that's who.

 

[Ditchinit]

A four-day work week will happen when companies are willing to take a 20% cut in profits.

They'll want the earning potential for an AI-augmented workforce and the increase productivity over five days. Six if they can get them.

 

[Grimlakin]

I think AI will lead to such a reduction in workforces that we will see a Universal Minimum Income established in every other modern country in the world....

Probably excluding the US.