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“We are not prepared”

**Repost due to bad words** I feel like people in the STEM bubble don’t have any understanding of how the average person views AI, so let me illustrate an example I work in Operations for a Railway (dispatch/traffic control/signaling). I recently finished a months long course for a professional certification. I don’t have work experience in tech, it’s just been a lifelong interest, but I’ve never programmed myself anything much more advanced than what a sophomore compsci major would produce. The final exam took place on a signaling system simulator. I’ve had a pro subscription for a long time because I use it to create software for my personal music projects. From there, after reading the Astra system card, I somehow came to the insane idea to recreate the simulator at home to practice on. So I created a new project, uploaded the course material, old exams and the user manuals for the simulation. After only 3 days back and forth, It worked In fact, it’s even better. Astra created a browser app that works natively anywhere. The real simulation software itself functions only on custom hardware and costs a couple hundred grand. But what’s really important here is the implication. Based only on the rule books and some manuals, the AI now has a better understanding of how to perform my job than 99% of my colleagues. They don’t get it. „it only makes slop“, „you can’t trust anything that comes from an AI“, or the most frequent is they simply don’t care to learn. They dont care about the implications the average person outside the tech world is either still under the impression AI hasn’t advanced since 2023, or is so inundated with anti AI agitprop, they have no idea what’s coming. If a dumbass like me could create a bot that could realistically replace an entire profession and hundreds of thousands of jobs in only 3 days, there is no way that my job, or anyone else’s job at the operational level will be remotely the same, if it even exist in 5 years time. And that’s extremely generous. **We are not prepared.**