Have you tried firing all the nurses and just not giving anyone healthcare?

No, what will happen instead is they'll get rid of half of the nurses and the ones they keep will be responsible for 16 million things. My agency is going through it right now. They fired one of our APNs and gave all her duties to our other one. She's already overwhelmed to the point of crying in the office.

Yeah; and insurance companies and healthcare orgs in the US are trying to sub out actual human healthcare providers with “specialist agents”, because PROFIT ÜBER ALLES.

But also, that sounds absolutely ripe for a massive fucking class action lawsuit.

I think the plan is to replace nurses with just letting people die instead.

You're looking at it too holistically. Rarely does a tech come and entirely replace something outright (despite what the AI hype bros have been saying)

There will be 50 or 100 companies who know the space working on a single thing the nurse does. My suspicion is that nurses do a lot of book keeping and state recording, that is likely what will go first. There might eventually still be someone administering a drug but fewer people doing data entry.

Still health care is notoriously slow and penny pinching so I suspect it will be a while and the only entrants will be big companies who know how to navigate large government or private organizations.

Eh. Modern cpus make over a trillion calculations per second. Number of tasks or thoughts isn't really the way to win this.

Nurses do have an especially varied and high-demand job but literally everyone does a million things every day that AI can't, and in it's current iteration could never do. Very very few people will actually lose their job to "AI" in the next decade, although many probably have to its false promises, and many more will because of the huge economic crash when businesses finish figuring this out.

Now perhaps. But in 20 years?