Japan's schoolgirls worried about job prospects in face of AI replacements

"Do you feel tremendous pressure from AI competition? Are extreme choices being made?

A highly publicized incident has occurred on the famous Higashi Seekabo site in Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture. A freshman female student enrolled in an art discipline reportedly came close to extreme behavior at the site, and the motivation for her actions turned out to be related to rapidly developing AI technology.

The reason for this girl's apprehension is that AI technology has been introduced in the curriculum of art subjects. Just by typing in the subject that needs to be painted, AI can easily generate a wonderful painting."

It used to take hours or even days to research a topic, but now it only takes 10 minutes. This made the girl feel helpless and fearful of being replaced for her talents and efforts.

In a similar vein, as AI technology advances and becomes more widespread, more and more human jobs will be replaced or marginalized by AI. This means that many people will be at risk of losing their jobs or seeing their salaries drop, and it also means that they will need to re-educate or change careers to adapt to new market demands.

The incident of Japanese students resorting to extreme behavior out of fear of being replaced by AI, though a case in point, reflects a common phenomenon. What are your thoughts on this?