“You won’t be replaced by AI, but by someone using AI” is 100% cope. It assumes AI will change how we work without fundamentally changing the jobs themselves. We have no basis for that confidence. We’re still in the earliest innings of the most transformational technology shift since the steam engine. Anyone professing to know the impact this will have on specific jobs over the next 5 years is trying to sell you something. We can’t know exactly where this ends. But we can look at how major technological shifts tend to unfold. And you usually see a few distinct moments: 1. Dismissal "It's just a toy, this will never lead to value." This was ChatGPT 3 - we were using it to make limericks, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air raps, and Studio Ghibli selfies. 2. Augmentation "You won't get replaced by AI, but by someone using AI." This is where we are now, and I bet this will be over by the end of the year. 3. Limited automation The first roles to be fully automated will be largely procedural, those with "correct" outputs and lacking significant legal ramifications if done incorrectly. This will cause major employment displacement and will overwhelmingly impact lower-wage white-collar work. 4. Widespread adoption & automation The universe of tasks that can be fully automated will rapidly expand, much faster than anyone realises. The impediments to this will be legal risk / accountability - we don't yet have a legal framework that can hold a model (or the person that implements a model) accountable. Until that changes, sectors like medicine, finance, legal, recruiting etc. will require someone's "neck on the block" for any AI decisions / outputs. 5. Full-scale automation It will become apparent that AI doctors, drivers, accountants, etc. are far more effective, efficient and cheaper than humans. You'll know when this happens because it'll become more expensive to insure a human driver than if you let AI drive. As we move through these stages, entire categories of jobs will disappear, much the way switchboard operators disappeared. So too will huge numbers of roles. Make no mistake, the societal impact will be huge. Governments will step in and look to slow things down. That may work for a very short while, but ultimately luddite-ism doesn't work. Now, this sounds very depressing, and you're probably wondering, "Why the hell are you saying all this, aren't you building a product that is all about jobs?!" I'm saying this because, deep down, I know that 'work' and productive behaviour in general are features of the human condition, not bugs. Over the last 250 years, we've seen many waves of technological advancement. Each of them brought displacement, but all raised human production, ingenuity and standards of living. We traded farming for factory work, factory work for office & services work and we'll trade office work for something else. I don't know what it'll be, but I do know that new economic opportunities will abound.

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