AI Won’t Replace Your Job

At my recent camping trip, I met a mother whose son is heading to university, thinking about studying architecture. She told me that she was worried that "AI would just do all that work soon", and asked my opinion on which jobs AI would surely replace.

I can't blame her for being worried about that. After all, that's the message we've been getting from AI companies. Curiously, a lot of them have changed their tune on that. Maybe because of growing backlash, maybe because they know it's not going to happen, but there haven't been as many bold predictions about "AI replacing all white-collar jobs in 18 months from now."

To the mother, I said that just about the only job I see AI replacing right now would be those with extremely low judgment involved and no bar on quality. Creating content for blog spam would be one example. Architects should be pretty far removed from that.

To the rest of us: The sooner business leaders realize that AI won't replace their workers, the sooner they can focus on where AI will augment their workers. The internal monologue needs to change from "I can't wait until AI gets good enough so I can fire everyone" to "I can't wait until AI gets good enough so everyone who works for me is super-charged."