AI isn't taking jobs - it's saving humanity from demographic collapse
“And historically, in society, that's actually always been the case, but we might be at a point where that might not be the case.”
birth rates are going down and we have a demographic shift that's happening in the world, and there's gonna be more people that are in the older age bracket than the younger age bracket. And those older people are gonna need folks to take care of them. And historically, in society, that's actually always been the case, but we might be at a point where that might not be the case. And when that's not the case, you know, we worry about AI taking our jobs. I think that survival of humanity depends on a successful AI because at at some point, if you have, you know, 60% of your population that's in a in a demographic where you don't have enough people to take care of them, that that could cause a lot of human suffering. So I don't think people talk about this enough, and that's something that we have to take a moment and digest that this is so important for our collective success,
About this clip
Cisco's president argues that declining birth rates and aging populations create an existential crisis where there won't be enough young people to care for the elderly. He contends that successful AI deployment is critical for humanity's survival, not a threat to jobs, because we'll need AI to fill the care gap when 60% of the population requires assistance.
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Flips the common AI job displacement narrative by framing AI as humanity's lifeline against demographic collapse.
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