Hank: AI will be bad for apprenticeship as companies give entry-level jobs to computers (2024)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2025-10-17) · owner: Hank
In October 2025 Hank said AI will be bad for apprenticeship, as companies give the entry-level jobs of people leaving school to computers to save money.
About: artificial intelligence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-05 | predicted | Hank worries AI will make it even harder for young people to find a place in the American economy, already hard because policies and systems steer wealth to older people. | I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts 00:00:29 |
| 2025-10-17 | predicted | Hank says AI will be bad for apprenticeship: entry-level jobs for people leaving school are now done by computers, and companies will try them out to save money whether or not they are good at it. | We Never Know What Anything Means 00:02:55 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank is fairly certain the number of people dying in wars will increase again in 2024. (hedged) — 00:01:03
- 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank is certain Donald Trump will be on the ballot in November, which puts him way too close to being president again, something absolutely possible. — 00:01:03
- 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank worries about a general attack on higher education, enabled by the industry's inability to control its costs, while public talk turns to culture-war nonsense instead. — 00:01:03
- 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank blames the culture-war talk and nationalism on the disintegration of the media landscape, caused by platforms like TikTok, Facebook and YouTube maximizing time on platform, where moral outrage sticks best. — 00:01:32
- 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank worries that those harmed most by any disruption are those with the least, and hears far too little about cycles perpetuating inequality globally and at home. — 00:01:32
- 2025-10-17 · We Never Know What Anything Means — Hank thinks AI's most impactful effects will be things nobody has any idea of now: beyond five years everything is up in the air, and beyond ten the dominant forces will be unthought of. — 00:03:10
- 2025-10-17 · We Never Know What Anything Means — Hank says that, like the telegraph, AI will be a very big deal with impacts much weirder than we think. — 00:03:33
- 2025-10-17 · We Never Know What Anything Means — Hank: Admitting his bias, Hank says we need to worry whether AI will continue us down the path of losing trust in each other and faith in humanity. — 00:03:40