The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care.
- By 2030, one in four people in Singapore will be over the age of 65.
- Authorities see potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care.
- An AI tool under development will use voice biomarkers to detect early signs of depression in seniors.
If you’re brutally honest you’ll probably admit that you do most of your job on autopilot. Unless something interesting happens and you have to make a judgement call, the main thing is just getting through the day without screwing up. AI could do that part and just nudge you as needed. It could probably do most office jobs that way. Employers will pretty soon realize they could run a 20-person department wtih AI and like 3 consultants to put out occasional fires. This will spread more and more to production jobs as industrial automation catches up. But what does an economy do with all the employees it pretty suddenly doesn’t need? I know the cliche that the goal of capitalism is to make money without employees, but without a certain critical mass of people getting wages they can spend, oligarchs can’t rake in profits and governments can’t rake in taxes. So at that point how do we make the economy work? I think that’s a conversation we’ll be having sooner than we think.
So is it working?
Mr.Chat, last name GPT, how can we care for our elders?
Chat GPT: I know, right?
Patient: poops self
AI Nurse: “would you like to hear a poem?”
Yeah this is going go horribly wrong. Also they pretty fucked if 1 in 4 will be over 65.
… can we just go with the future in which we figure out ethical self-euthanasia? I’d rather do that than have ChatGPT take care of me…
Singapore is replacing it’s population with AI robots.
“Singapore is unable to take care of elderly” fixed title
Singaporeans are very forward-thinking. I want to be Singaporean.
I went to Singapore to chew gum, watch porn online, be gay, have 1 gram of cannabis, and I’m all out of gum, which is good, because all of those things are illegal.
There’s been one political party in power for decades. A guy went to the place where you’re allowed (gee thanks) to speak freely, and then got arrested for speaking freely. You can get the death sentence for having some drugs. All male citizens have to do a year of military service.
It’s a lovely place to spend a short time, but there’s no way I’d ever live there.
