Is The “AI” Grim Reaper Coming For Your Job?

Very likely, especially if you’re cranking out busywork or don’t do anything physical in your day job besides walking to meetings.

“Image generated using OpenAI’s DALL·E.”

Let’s make something clear at the outside, “AI” isn’t coming for your job, it’s coming for your tasks, what you do, and this is because it isn’t interested in your job title, whether you’ve got a window seat in the office, how well you know the Head of HR (and how they give you a free pass with performance reviews), or if you’ve finally convinced your project manager that you can work from home (and will definitely delete those photos from the office Christmas party).

For once, the “AI” hype train may be underselling the industrial carnage that is to come.

I’m not saying the self-professed “thought leaders” on LinkedIn might actually have worked out something correctly, but what with their huge torrent of random clickbait attracting crap they generate, they might have accidentally hit on something interesting, for once.

There’s always been a lot of social media hand wringing around whether “AI” can replace people and do their jobs/tasks, but this has been, at least previously, just naïve speculation, serving only to facilitate grant applications and the engagement for the aforementioned drivel generated for sites such as LinkedIn.