All the ways AI is going to change (not steal) your job (Fast Company)

[usonian]

AI may be threatening some jobs, but it’s going to improve a lot of others.
BY LYDIA DISHMAN
1 MINUTE READ
https://www.fastcompany.com/90907188/all-the-ways-ai-is-going-to-change-not-steal-your-job

Short article, full of links (not shown here) to various articles covering the pro's and con's.

Projected losers: bank tellers, cashiers, insurance clerks, and legislators, among others.
Legislators? How about roughly half of them?

We get it: The unknown is a little scary. Although AI has been around for decades, the meteoric rise of ChatGPT has changed the conversation around whether we will lose our jobs to robots. The answer is . . . complicated.

Right now, Fast Company reporters (not bots!) are covering how generative AI is enabling us to work better—and more creatively—than we have before. We’ve reported on how Stable Animation is giving creators a team of talented animators akin to having their own Disney studio, how workflow can be supercharged for productivity on Airtable, how you can use it to create more compelling marketing efforts, and even how AI makes a compelling case for liberating workers from the office, amid all the RTO mandates. And we’ve done a deep dive into how UX designers tap into the power of plug-ins like those on Figma to level up all aspects of their work from testing for accessibility to creating final code. If you’re curious, we’ve rounded up a bunch of AI tools you can try for free.

On the flip (read: darker) side, we’re already seeing how generative AI is threatening some jobs. A recently released report from the World Economic Forum revealed a number of jobs that would likely not exist in five years including bank tellers, cashiers, insurance clerks, and legislators, among others. Right now, even makeup artists—who you might think are so hands-on there’s no way they could be replaced—have proven to be dispensable. That’s thanks to a host of tools that can reshape entire video clips. The results are astounding and soon will be as easy to use as a TikTok filter.

We’re staying optimistic. There is still plenty of space for humans in the future of work. Just make sure you’re taking every measure to prepare yourself by experimenting, enhancing your skills, and continuing to work smarter.

Lots of people say that it's not so much the AI as the people using (i.e. misusing) it.

[Javaman]

1. I know that my job can be completely replaced by AI

I was honestly thinking of creating the AI program that would replace me. Beat those in power before they replace me. Then charge them to buy the program.

There are 2 other people in my dept. I would ask for at least 3 million. Split it between us.

[usonian]

3. My last job at a defense contractor was to write code to delete the computer accounts

of people leaving. I think the odds of your ploy are low.

I am a bit of a generalist and every job change meant some new skills. I was pretty good at adapting. But it was Silicon Valley, and eventually, I failed the age test. Now, I'm not just blaming. An agency gave me a "guru" rating in email servers, and it failed to impress that fruit company.

Good luck.

By the way, it's really tough selling to your own company. Companies have two modes of operation, depending on some random fluctuation.

1. Stuff created outside the company is far better than what our people can do. ( excellent presentation! )
2. If it's "not invented here", it's inferior and impossible to integrate. ( what a bunch of marketing BS! )

[misanthrope]

2. Color me skeptical

In our capitalist model, technology is used to streamline production and structure so that there are fewer employees/workers to slice off their portion of the wealth that naturally flows upward to those at the top of the structure. This has been consistent for the last 150 years. It will become another weapon in the war on the middle class.

[BannonsLiver]

4. AI is portrayed in an exclusively negative light on DU

Largely because one particular poster who saw the Terminator movies one too many times is utterly obsessed with driving that narrative.