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Reese Witherspoon Doubles Down on Telling Women to Learn AI: Jobs We Hold Are ‘Three Times More Likely to Be Automated By AI’ (variety.com)
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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Women tend to dominate care positions, nursing, teaching, and child care. None of them are going to be touched by AI, other than massive head aches caused in teaching kids to lazy to learn. Outside of those, women are in no different position than men when facing automation.

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago

Less women are in fields like electrical, plumbing, and construction which are harder to automate and more are in things like customer service and reception. I think she's just saying things, but I can understand why someone may have said that.