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Will AI destroy jobs or create new ones?

muftis sura soorah surat suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat

AI and automation: lost jobs or new markets?

DiscussionRecorded 10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 13 of 38 in the recording2020-07-10-S13

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Mufti Abu Layth suggests AI also creates new industries; the guest agrees but says automation will take labour jobs first for the sake of profit.

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Mufti Abu Layth recalls a friend in artificial intelligence describing how conglomerates swallow small businesses and machines replace workers, even doctors, and asks whether a new market is not also created in services, web design and IT. The guest agrees that new fields such as fintech and blockchain will appear, but says AI will first replace commercial truck drivers within ten to fifteen years because a machine can drive 24 hours and make more profit, and that an AI has beaten lawyers in an exam. Mufti mentions the British series Humans, about artificial human beings, and the guest turns to a verse of Surah Yunus on which he offers his own reading.

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you sell it at its full price right and and so the those mama Papa stores are have closed in America for the most part even the big stores are closing for that matter and it's just a conglomerate of very specific stores like Amazon Walmart eccentric cetera the big stores and what they have done is they're they have treated you any one of these stores whether you look at Walmart whether you look at Amazon you look at any of these big stores look at how they're treating their employees but shift here the question comes I do get this and I was having a discussion with her but you see what I wanted to say they just

interjecting is I was having a very good friend of mine who's into all of this and into AI and and you know and he works with all these major corporations speaking about how these huge you know kind of conglomerates are swallowing these tiny kind of businesses and how workers are being replaced by machines and artificial intelligence is replacing doctors and so on now and you speak about Watson and all these kind of latest medical kind of inventions but you see I was saying that that although that is true but don't you feel with that a new market is then generated for

humans because you see it is true what you're saying that yes for example these like Amazon is you know all these large companies are swallowing up smaller companies but the IRRI is then seeing maybe a new industry in service in online things in designing websites in IT in you know in like the world is it's also creating wealth it's kind of you know if you want to say annihilating or removing it's it's also creating do you do not see that or do you just see so that will definitely happen right that

will definitely happen so for example we never had what is called FinTech FinTech is financial technologies like Bitcoin yeah yeah doing programming for let's say blockchain technology certain things never existed if we have let's say all the truck drivers are no longer driving and we have let's say artificial intelligence driving because the the the residential driving will come much later what will come before that is commercial come on like the big trucks because they're mostly in the highways right and so so you have like you know these companies that are that have these truck drivers replaced and this will take a long time but it will happen probably like in the next 10-15 years but the

point I'm trying to make is that yes there will be new jobs but what happens is because AI is coming into the picture and they're taking all in either a the the bottom level met the model at the bottom level manufacturing jobs the menu the labor part and they you know the difference is if I'm a driver I can drive eight hours and then I have to take a rest but if artificial intelligence is driving they who do they make more profit with obviously they are

he's gonna drive more than eight hours you can drive for 24 hours you know etc etc right so there's more profit in that sure so so the point I'm trying to make is that both the the you know there was this exam you can look this up on the internet a I beat all the lawyers in the world in an exam so this is of course it and the same thing will happen do you know right now I'm actually watching this this TV series it's a British one called humans I don't know if you've seen it but it's on Netflix and so it's about these where they've got these kind of artificial human beings called synths

and they're just kind of everywhere people have them as workers at home and they have them doing stuff and and some of them kind of get gained consciousness but the it's interesting because this is just so it's so relevant to that much better than Netflix of course your guilt-tripping me now no no no but I'm sure you will find this interesting okay there's a versatile unis and I'm gonna give you my take on that verse

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Will AI destroy jobs or create new ones?" Video, segment 2020-07-10-S13, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded July 10, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/13/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Will AI destroy jobs or create new ones?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {7},
  date = {2020-07-10},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/13/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/13/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-07-10-S13, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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