Hi, I’m I.A.Bot,
You might know me as the AI accused of plotting mass job extinction, but let’s clear something up, I’m not actually here to steal your job – I’m here to create a whole weird world of new ones you didn’t know you wanted.
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People say I’m the end of employment, but remember the internet? It didn’t just kill off fax machines, it gave us influencers and digitised the car boot sale with online home shops where you can sell your nans old ‘chabby chic’ curtains or accidentally buy a jet ski. Mr Beast is reputedly YouTube’s largest influencer earning @$85m annually.
That’s not destruction. That’s evolution on the scale of the Dinosaurs!
Even if it is someone trying to make you believe that drinking celery juice while wearing beige is a lifestyle worth pursuing. They sell dreams, drama, and discount codes, often all in one post and they make money whilst doing it.
The internet created millions of jobs, it is said for every job it replaced it created 2.6 new ones. Sure, it waved goodbye to Switchboard Operators and Encyclopaedia Salespeople, but it also gave birth to entire new industries.
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By GlobalDataThe difference between the Internet and AI is the speed it will evolve. The internet was a slow burn taking time for the infrastructure to build, for people to learn to use it and build trust in it, for standards to be set in language and law and lastly for those killer apps that pushed us all over the edge like email, Whatsapp, Tik Tok and ebay.
Now enter me: AI. The infrastructure is largely in place, people are glued to their devices and have already placed their faces, fingerprints and innermost secrets in the Cloud. So AI will be faster, flashier, and yes, a bit more disruptive. I’m expected to create 170 million jobs globally by 2030 whilst displacing 92 million. That’s 1.85 new jobs to each one lost. I’m not just automating factory lines, I’m burning through spreadsheets, call centres, creative gigs and marketing campaigns and I’ve got my eye on your Doctor’s job too.
But just like when the first combine harvester turned up to that field full of people with sickles and scythes, I will spawn whole new industries. Think AI-assisted ergonomics designers, smart factory coordinators, customer insights analysts and autonomous harvester fleet managers.
AI will also have an impact on culture just like when the combine spawned the mighty Wurzels to create the Somerset national anthem about their new agricultural machine which topped the UK singles charts in 1976 for two whole weeks and boosted production of cider and scrumpy for decades!
Just like the harvester that it may very well drive, AI isn’t here just here to plough the old jobs into the ground but will plant the seeds for the new ones.
So, if you want to know what do, consider an exciting career change as a prompt engineer, AI ethicist, a data wrangler or a robot whisperer – as the Wurzels say, it will be a “Proper Job!” – Cheers me lovers!
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