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Bestselling author of "The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions" | Professor and Chair in Digital Economy | Top 100 AI Thought Leader | Global Keynote Speaker on Digital Economy, AI & Innovation
People continually overstate the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs. Yes, a huge number of tasks will no longer be done by humans, but at the same time, completely new tasks m̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ e̶m̶e̶r̶g̶e̶ have already been emerging. Take software development as an example: let's assume that basic coding skills will be done by generative AI tools (and many people would argue that even that is not yet possible, despite all the hype). Suddenly, there will be a need for a higher-order set of tasks - coordinating and "project managing" such code-writing agents. The skills required for it will be quite different from those for simply writing code, but understanding the basics will still be crucial, just like it still makes much sense to know arithmetics, even when using calculators. I'd be very curious to hear what new types of tasks or skill needs you see emerging in your space. For instance, we use gen AI a lot to analyse various data assets in our research (where traditional methods do not apply). We have to learn how to prepare the data for these systems to be able to work with it, how to prompt them effectively, and how to ensure the outputs are of acceptable quality. I don't see our jobs disappearing any time soon. Instead, the quality of work we produce is definitely going up! (An excerpt from my chat with Michal Krawczyk 🚀 of Int4)
hope AI will just release us from the most repetitive tasks :)
International Communications Expert in Poland
3wMarek, why do you write ‘might emerge’ at the end of the first paragraph? Surely you can write ‘will emerge’ with total confidence. As someone who is more concerned about large numbers of jobs becoming obsolete due to AI than AI / tech experts like you seem to be - which gives me a lot of comfort, btw - your use of ‘might’ threw me a bit, and makes me wonder if you’re purposefully hedging your bets, or would be happy to replace it with ‘will’ :)