One in three workers globally will see their jobs disrupted by AI and tech advancements this decade — but there’s a way to stay ahead of the curve. Skill-building strategist Sagar Goel shares practical examples from a partnership with the Singaporean government that helped thousands of workers transition into new careers, offering a lesson on the importance of reskilling and becoming a lifelong learner.
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@ptkettlehatsandthegang
June 10, 2024 at 7:34 am
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@nerd26373
June 10, 2024 at 7:45 am
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@arcadiagreen150
June 10, 2024 at 7:49 am
Soon, “learn to code” will be “learn to pave roads.”
@Ribberflavenous
June 10, 2024 at 7:49 am
Learning is essential in life and if you don’t reinvent yourself constantly, you can expect to lose ground and/or become irrelevant in whatever you do. At one time, the developed world had the advantage, with the industrial and logistic underpinning that allowed a standard of living well exceeding the world average. Now, with a few exceptions, the manufacturing barriers of entry have dropped, and the service industry is becoming so distributed that it no longer matters if you are working from your home in NYC or some backwater town that has a fiber connection available. The playing field is leveling and competition is growing. Retool or be this generation’s village blacksmith.
@arcadiagreen150
June 10, 2024 at 8:01 am
AGI will send more people out of the labor force than the steam engine did. Prepare to be obsolete
@priscamolotsi
June 10, 2024 at 8:04 am
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This speech makes me very sad. Goodbye to creative jobs: architects, writers, photographers, interior decorators, music producers. Very sad 😢.
@h.l.malazan5782
June 10, 2024 at 9:17 am
I try my best to just keep those people in my periphery and nothing more. I do not know how old you are, but if you live long enough, you learn to not get too invested in a discourse with them.
Communicating with children is quite a jarring contrast in comparison; one is real a human conversation and the other is buttressing against someone who escaped an asylum.
@TheAmericanAmerican
June 10, 2024 at 8:21 am
“Learn to code”, they said.
“You’ll get a great job”, they said…
@h.l.malazan5782
June 10, 2024 at 8:54 am
It was never about your skill set. They just do not like people in general. Even when they are being pro-life, it is a pretense out of spite.
@paperspeaksco
June 10, 2024 at 8:39 am
Let me save you 9 minutes: Bro is simply here to shill his own consultancy by talking about a program his company ran for the Singapore Govt. He offes zero new ideas.
@EchoMountain47
June 10, 2024 at 12:19 pm
Yeah. Sadly the TED YouTube channel is turning into a low quality content farm like so many others
@pragmaticpundit7703
June 10, 2024 at 7:42 pm
Someone pin this comment please.
@Soleks1774
June 10, 2024 at 10:48 pm
This is the comment I was looking for. A little too much smiling making me feel suspicious.
@TheMrmoc7
June 10, 2024 at 9:45 am
As AI and robots replace workers, there will be some new openings and opportunities for some very adaptive people to reskill, some highly intelligent tech people will still be needed to supervise AI, some will find work in the expanding social services sector, goods/items will get cheaper, but very importantly we will need some kind of universal basic income because for many people, “reskilling” will simply be impossible. As social services sector becomes oversatturated, wages will not be super high but goods will be very cheap so cost of living will be low. The middle class will shrink dramatically, and the world will be divided into two classes: The ultrarich, and everyone else; However, the standard of living for “everyone else” will hopefully be acceptable, especially when a Model Y performance may only cost $1000, and a blazing fast super computer may only cost $2. Companies and the ultrarich will need to be taxed at extremely high rates, upwards of 95% in order to keep society from total collapse.
@Penrose707
June 10, 2024 at 2:31 pm
Completely agree
@libbycritelli2099
June 13, 2024 at 9:29 pm
The prediction of our society as 2 classes – an ultra intelligent and wealthy class and an unskilled and poor class – was taught in 1993 in a vo-tech school in Montana. Looks like that prediction is very likely!
@coommanderscheppert9222
June 10, 2024 at 9:52 am
this channel used to be a great place for inspiration, now it feels more like a advertising channel for AI bullshit
@b.j.
June 10, 2024 at 10:10 am
Audience size is pitiful in recent TED talks. They used to be somewhat groundbreaking. Now it’s just regurgitated Google summaries.
@franciscojose6496
June 10, 2024 at 10:25 am
Interesting and intelligent channel no doubt pure information
@grannysweet
June 10, 2024 at 10:29 am
Loved your point.
🤔 anytime in recent memory or known history maybe. Planet Earth has under gone 6? Mass extinctions. Sometimes the learning curve is steep and brutal and abrupt. I wonder if we have enough time to save us and the planet both. Reskilling isn’t just doable, its necessary. Good luck to us all.❤
@zliberm0
June 10, 2024 at 10:38 am
Title is disingenuous. For Every new tech that comes out, politicians suggest reskilling old workers…it never happens.
The old workers are too old/ don’t have the time or money to “reskill”. How many 45/50 year olds do you see in collage for their second bachelors?
Also there isn’t any knowledge basked thing you can learn that won’t be better done by an ai so al you have left is your physical capital. Which is why construction and hospice care isn’t going anywhere for like 3 -15 years…
@CozyCityWitch
June 10, 2024 at 11:51 am
It is called “an optimist’s take” for a reason, so not at all disingenuous.
@pragmaticpundit7703
June 10, 2024 at 7:43 pm
@@CozyCityWitch You can be an optimist and be disingenuous to push an agenda. I.e. selling his consulting services.
@celestialcircledance
June 11, 2024 at 6:32 am
Even if those 45 or 50 year old’s managed to achieve this difficult undertaking , age-related bias in the hiring process is a real hurdle to all that money , time and effort paying dividends .
@EchoMountain47
June 10, 2024 at 12:18 pm
It’s a sales pitch for his consultancy firm. TEDTalks are starting to feel more and more like infomercials and it sucks
@EchoMountain47
June 10, 2024 at 12:21 pm
Hey, billions of people are going to be displaced by artificial intelligence and automation in the next few years, but on the bright side, Singapore included a reskilling float in their parade. Isn’t that great, guys!? TED, you’ve really fallen off a cliff lately. There is a very necessary conversation to be had here about rapid technological disruption, the job market and the role that private and public organizations play. Sadly, this conversation was not that
@bentstrider
June 10, 2024 at 12:27 pm
Nothing wrong with reskilling. Now we just got to get it right here in the states. Fast track programs and minimal fluff courses to deal with.
@nickiwins2939
June 10, 2024 at 12:37 pm
I wish reskilling was more popular for 3rd world countries with the growing impact of AI
@ArturOleszczuk1991
June 10, 2024 at 12:55 pm
Last TED video that just proven me to unsubscribe. TED is completely gone and makes zero sense now. Some BS hype train and brainwashed propaganda. No thanks. No TED anymore. You sold yourself now people will just lose interest with every next video
@tmotus84
June 10, 2024 at 2:25 pm
Why is there so much AI stuff lately? Is the AI driven algorithm tricking TED into encouraging more AI content??? 🤦♂️
@SurfbyShootin
June 10, 2024 at 5:04 pm
Upper classes are very excited about exploiting the population with AI. Their excitement is genuine.
@farhanatoerien3437
June 10, 2024 at 2:29 pm
Why is he so anxious 😢
@googleuser6814
June 10, 2024 at 2:57 pm
No useful info.
@armastus1474
June 10, 2024 at 3:03 pm
Is this message for the workers laid off or for the companies laying off people? This is capitalist America, there ain’t no “re-skilling” happening here, just sheer profit. Sorry man, you living an illusion
@ahoog69
June 10, 2024 at 4:32 pm
I appreciate Sagar’s optimism. We–as an increasingly global society–can choose to descend into a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom and failure, OR we can take on an optimistic framework and put Artificial Intelligence to work for ALL of humanity. Will it proceed smoothly? Probably not, but I would rather make a positive effort to shape a future that benefits as many people as possible. Consumers and consumer groups need to noticeably push back against companies and organizations that blindly use A.I. to replace large swaths of their workforce. We also need to demand privacy, as well as fair payment for use of intellectual property for training purposes. This can all happen if we decide this is what we would like.
@JonRossUI-designer
June 10, 2024 at 8:33 pm
I noticed an extreme amount of age-related bias in this talk. Replay it and listen carefully. Ageism is different in different cultures. A 40-year old in one culture is not equally cognitively impaired as they are in another. One’s own beliefs about aging can cause self-induced mental decline. The negative self-talk in one’s head about being a certain age, reinforced by your surrounding community may convince most to assume a mental state that isn’t true or accurate. STOP AGEISM NOW!
@xalspaero
June 11, 2024 at 12:26 am
actually, we’ll all be unemployable in a few short years. just need to hold on long enough for the new paradigm to emerge…
@qianwenge3394
June 11, 2024 at 2:09 am
The times change prompts me to keep moving forward to face the upgrade of my skillset. Stay optimistic and open-minded to enjoy the new things. Lifelong learning will become a habit of mine to keep me active and energized.
@irfan_muhammed_
June 11, 2024 at 2:10 am
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@CleverHybrids
June 12, 2024 at 5:09 am
From fear to curiosity is the key takeaway❤
@ChetanRao
June 12, 2024 at 4:46 pm
How does this deserve to be a TED talk?