March 24, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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| Well, let's talk about what's happening with AI. | |
| More than a quarter of computer programming jobs just vanished. | |
| Remember, it's just a couple years ago. | |
| People were saying, learn to code. | |
| Well, it turns out that learn to code is not much of job security. | |
| Computer programming ranks among the 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs for which we have data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | |
| It said learning to code was supposed to save millions of would-be liberal arts majors. | |
| But today there are fewer programmers in the U.S. than at any point since 1980, a 45-year period in which America's total workforce has grown by about 75%. | |
| It is flatlined, actually declined, not even flatlined. | |
| But then the real issue is in the name. | |
| There's a difference between, and that's what the rest of the article is really about. | |
| The difference is in programmers versus... | |
| Software analysts, I guess, is the way that I would talk about it. | |
| But they're talking about software designers, software developers. | |
| So they said that has not really made that much of a difference. | |
| They said software designers, as they call it with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are paid about 30% more than programmers. | |
| Programmers would be the people who would implement it. | |
| And this is just kind of like an introductory situation. | |
| And so there are two different types of things. | |
| So it's not all computer programming. | |
| And they said if you stop and look at it, when you think about AI that is putting together code, it is acting as a coder, as a programmer, but it's still going to be the software designer or the analyst who's going to meet with the company. | |
| And decide what their needs are, design the system, and then say, okay, now I need to have the code written to implement this particular design. | |
| And so there is a huge difference, and it's about, like I said, about a 30% difference in terms of pay with designers getting paid 30% more than the programmers. | |
| But they said the Bureau of Labor Statistics defines programmers as human coding machines. | |
| And so now we have artificial coding machines. | |
| Research from people in Northwestern University, economists there, found that the job market effects of earlier generations of AI and machine learning to be quite muted, however. | |
| They said the tools make workers more efficient, perhaps even redundant, but that same efficiency boost also causes a firm to grow, and a growing firm hires more workers. | |
| I don't think that's going to be the case, though. | |
| I've said this for the longest time. | |
| A lot of people said, well, you know, we had people who did this, and then that industry changed, and they replaced it with that. | |
| It's like, okay, I understand that. | |
| And so, you know, they just changed over to another type of job. | |
| I said, but we're talking about with the AI revolution when it comes, and it's on us now. | |
| I've been saying this for a decade. | |
| When the AI revolution comes, you're going to be doing this in all different job descriptions. | |
| So this is going to be affecting people that are at the top. | |
| This is going to be affecting people at the bottom at entry-level positions. | |
| And it's going to be affecting every industry. | |
| And that's what we're seeing here. | |
| So the first 10 roads are going to be in the more routine programming. | |
| The unemployment jump for programming really does look at least partly like an early visible labor market effect of AI. | |
| Well, that's because that's what it is. | |
| They said a recent report from California AI Outfit. | |
| Anthropic, and again, they have their own chatbot. | |
| It's called Claude. | |
| And so they said in 2024 and 2025, as people were using Claude, they calculated that the share of all queries used for tasks related to each of the more than 700 occupations, they found that people using AI to perform the tasks usually assigned to computer programmers, did that more than those of any other job. | |
| So that has been the most natural fit to this particular point. | |
| In a majority of cases, 57% of the people were using AI to augment their work rather than to automate it entirely. | |
| And that's a way to be used by the software designers, analysts, or whatever. | |
| They will use the AI to augment their work, but that means that they're going to be replacing the human programmers. | |
| Usage tilts more towards augmentation, which things like having the AI check your work, asking questions to teach you things, iterating on a piece of work rather than automation. | |
| AI is on balance to use more as a tool to help you with the work that you're doing rather than automating small chunks of it. | |
| But that is also rapidly changing. | |
| Something called AI agents. | |
| And that is going to be the next big displacement, disruptor, I should say. | |
| Programmers may be more likely than software developers to have more of their job replaced by generative AI, but the sharp decline cannot be attributed to generative AI alone, they said. | |
| Well, then what about lawyers? | |
| Forbes has an article about will AI replace lawyers, and the answer to that is yes, in massive numbers. | |
| I go back again to this, and it was about a decade ago, South Korea went through and did an industry-by-industry survey who was going to have their jobs replaced. | |
| And in terms of drivers that we're just talking about, they said, well, we think about 50% of the driving and transportation jobs will be replaced. | |
| But when it comes to doctors and lawyers, 70%. | |
| They were the highest. | |
| And of course, when you're talking about white-collar jobs, You're looking at, you know, it'd be a natural for people who are using computers all the time, people who are software designers and analysts, it'd be quite natural for them to incorporate the computer into their work. | |
| But in terms of lawyers and doctors, it's going to be a massive displacement as well. | |
| They think it'd be even more so than some of these jobs, again, because it is very much like what you're seeing with ChatGPT, these chatbots. | |
| going through and researching a lot of documents. | |
| That is something that AI could do better than driving an ambulance through heavy traffic or through an intersection. | |
| And so you're going to have a lot more displacement with that. | |
| Over the past few years, a growing number of legal professionals have embraced AI tools to boost efficiency and reduce costs. | |
| Nearly 73% of legal experts now plan to incorporate AI into their daily operations. | |
| 65% of law firms agree that, quote, effective use of generative AI will separate the successful and the unsuccessful law firms in the next five years. | |
| So the bottom line is they haven't done it yet, but they're about to do it. | |
| They're going to do it in terms of, well, I've got to do it in order to survive. | |
| So the AI-powered legal startups and the funding for them reached new record highs in 2024. | |
| Total capital investment of $477 million. | |
| Half a billion dollars invested in AI to be used for legal work. | |
| They said the appeal for venture capitalists is the potential that 44% of legal work could potentially be automated using emerging AI tools. | |
| Again, this is going to be paralegals, just like the programmers. | |
| This is the way that this is going to roll out, I'm sure, especially at the beginning. | |
| They said the investment frenzy that saw 58 funded deals in 2024 to bring AI automation to speed up contract analysis, document summarization, case research means a shift away from the slow traditional methods that have defined the legal industry for decades, saving four hours per week. | |
| And the opportunity to increase annual billable time per lawyer by $100,000. | |
| We also see AI is bringing something of a revolution in weather forecasting as well. | |
| Isn't that interesting? | |
| How many times have I talked about the American Meteorological Society? | |
| Their meeting in Austin. | |
| It was in 2013, I think. | |
| And I went there to report on it. | |
| And the fact that... | |
| Everybody was struggling with models. | |
| They all had computer models. | |
| And unlike climate prediction, with weather, they could test to see whether or not their models worked. | |
| With climate prediction, they're predicting stuff that is decades out. | |
| So you just take their word for it. | |
| And they trade on their reputation and their credentials. | |
| Trust me, I am science. | |
| The whole Fauci routine. | |
| That's the way the climate people were working. | |
| Well, the people who were doing actual meteorological work, they were coming up with all these different models, and there were literally hundreds of them on the floor. | |
| You had dozens of people that were doing presentations. | |
| I attended some of those, but everybody had a model, and everybody was playing with it, and nobody really was getting it right. | |
| Now they've got new AI prediction model. | |
| That is tens of times better than the current system, they say. | |
| The new model is called Aardvark Weather. | |
| I guess they want to get first in the phone book. | |
| Aardvark. Could have called it AAA Weather, right? | |
| It replaces the supercomputers and the human experts used by forecasting agencies with a single AI model they can run on a standard desktop computer. | |
| Turns a multi-stage process that takes hours to generate a forecast into a prediction model that takes just seconds. | |
| And then, of course, it can also produce the person. | |
| You know, it can be AI-generated instead of the weatherman. | |
| And, you know, it can create all the graphics for you without having somebody there at the green screen, you know, like Bill Murray on Groundhog Day or whatever. | |
| This is a real issue. | |
| And again, all of these billionaires understand this, and this is why they are coming together with the Trump administration to push this technocracy through. | |
| From Bloomberg to Musk, and they were not on opposite sides in the last election in 2020 when Bloomberg was running. | |
| He said, the smart ones of us are figuring out how we're going to replace everybody else's jobs, and we've just got to figure out how we're going to keep them from coming after us with guillotines. | |
| And we'll do that with universal basic income. | |
| And everybody looked at what he said, and they said, well, he's calling farmers and factory workers stupid. | |
| Well, yes, he was. | |
| But that's not the point. | |
| They're coming for everybody. | |
| Everybody. So, tests of the aardvark model revealed that it's able to outperform the U.S. national... | |
| GFS forecasting system using just 10% of the input data leading researchers to say that it could offer a revolution in forecasting. | |
| Question is, are you going to believe the AI when it tells you that the sky is falling and it comes up with the next chicken little climate issue? | |
| I, for one, am not. | |
| That's the danger of all this stuff. | |
| That's the other danger, besides taking our jobs. | |
| And making sure that we own nothing and they put us on a welfare thing to pacify us. | |
| Besides that, besides the surveillance, besides the control, there is the propaganda, the lies. | |
| And that is really concerning. | |
| Now, I said before that there's a new part of AI that's coming out, an AI agent. | |
| And that is, they don't really talk about that much in this story about the robot dog. | |
| This is a Swedish AI startup company that's created a robot dog that is capable of learning and adapting like animals to make certain decisions and to follow specific goals. | |
| That's what an AI agent does. | |
| You give it generalized goals and it can work out how it's going to achieve those goals. | |
| So what we're talking about here is an AI agent That it's controlling a robotic dog. | |
| And how long does it take before that dog turns into the Terminator? | |
| We all love dogs, and they're nice and friendly, and they're down low and everything, but they're putting machine guns on the dogs, and it won't be long before these two-legged robots that they've got doing somersaults and all the rest of this stuff have been given a goal, and they're going to then use the AI agent. | |
| Well, NVIDIA's CEO is saying the humanoid robot revolution is even closer than you think. | |
| This is NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Wang. | |
| He says it's less than five years away. | |
| Last Tuesday, he gave a keynote address in front of a packed hockey stadium. | |
| During the nearly $3 trillion company's annual developer conference in San Jose, California, he was asked what signs would show that AI had become ubiquitous. | |
| He said it may be when literally humanoid robots are wandering around, which is not five years away. | |
| This is not a five years away problem. | |
| This is a few years away problem. | |
| So I'll be here before 2030. | |
| Isn't that nice? | |
| 2030 has been the focus for these people. | |
| For them to have their new society in. | |
| That doesn't need us, doesn't want us. | |
| And seeks to control us. | |
| He said the value of it is very, very easy to determine. | |
| He said the going rate for renting a human robot is probably going to be $100,000. | |
| I'm assuming that's per year. | |
| And he says, and I think that's going to be pretty good economics. | |
| So he's talking about using it primarily initially. | |
| And manufacturing. | |
| Apple is looking at including cameras in their future Apple Watch models. | |
| And they want to put the cameras in there because, again, it's going to be part of the AI push. | |
| Remember, we're talking about Handy. | |
| And we're talking about David, the buses and the ambulances. | |
| And the AIs with the cameras watching you, watching the road, putting all this stuff together. | |
| And so now we get the watches as well. | |
| And we'll all be data generators for these people, generating... | |
| This is why TikTok and all these other things are so important for them, because it's big compute. | |
| They want to be able to watch humans, to learn from humans. | |
| How creepy is that? | |
| I think it's pretty creepy. | |
| You know, I used to really love technology when I got into engineering. | |
| I absolutely loathe these people now. | |
| It's the same reason I would not... | |
| Go into the military-industrial complex because I didn't like the way they were using the technology. | |
| Now, I don't like the way they're using any of the technology. | |
| Why? Because all the technology is being driven by the government. | |
| And again, as we said before, war is the lifeblood of the state, and the state is going to go to war with us. | |
| It's already at war with us in many different ways. | |
| It's going to be escalating that much more. | |
| And a move to position the Apple Watch as more of an AI wearable. | |
| Multiple versions of future AI watch models that include cameras. | |
| This will help the device see the outside world. | |
| Well, isn't that special? | |
| You know, I actually, when I was at Infowars, we had like little spy devices, you know, cameras. | |
| We had a wristwatch that had a camera in it. | |
| We had glasses that had a camera in it. | |
| Of course, the glasses didn't really look that real, unfortunately. | |
| So you could... | |
| You could steer them and use them to record video, but it didn't look real and you could figure out that it had a camera in it. | |
| The watch, though, you couldn't see it, but the watch was impossible to aim. | |
| I practiced and practiced and practiced it, and I went to a book signing where Hillary Clinton was. | |
| I was going to, you know, I could not get her in the frame to save my life. | |
| Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky. | |
| I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years. | |
| You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better. | |
| And I could... | |
| If only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue. | |
| But he told me to get lost. | |
| Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com. | |
| And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. | |
| At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred. | |
| Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful. | |
| I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events. |
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