Future-Proof Your Career: Embracing AI in the Workplace & Will AI Bring About the Zombie Apocalypse?
Technology moves at lightning speed; just think of a few of the changes you may have seen in your life. You can check yourself out at stores and you can scan your personal checks and remote deposit the funds to your account from your mobile device. You may have even done both, this week alone.
An additional example of how quickly the world is changing is yet another solution has been released that helps companies to create AI Agents. The company "Supernormal" just launched an easy new way to create free AI agents. There are many other vendors with similar solutions.
These automated AI assistants can independently host, transcribe, and summarize online conversations. You can typically select the type of agent you want to create: sales, survey, customer support, event feedback, employee engagement, or custom.
Fact - The next few years will be enormously disruptive for every industry and career field due to the adoption of AI (artificial Intelligence) by companies. The impacts on the overall job market will be historic and of a scale never seen before.
Fact - The good news is that individuals who embrace AI will own tomorrow's job market.
Fact - To ensure you have a role in an AI-driven company (i.e., any company now), there are a few skills you will need. But, first let's look at some the impacts projected to happen in the next 5 - 7 years.
Projected careers to be either replaced or dramatically reduced
Projections of displacement due to AI
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How to thrive during these fast-changing times and how to reskill
Prepare for the "for certain" AI future coming with a willingness to level up your skills is the most important way to succeed in uncertain times. Have faith, remember recent studies propose that AI may in fact create more new jobs than it ultimately eliminates in old jobs. For example, when ATMs arrived in the 1980s. Everyone thought it'd be the immediate end of bank tellers, but, in fact, the role of bank tellers was reimagined to focus on marketing and interpersonal skills.
If we can move beyond our collective and understandable anxiety, the future becomes a once-in-a-generation chance to realize new meaningful work. Many of us have been wanting just such a revolution ever since the Covid-19 pandemic forever changed office life. This could be the time when new opportunities begin.
Don't sweat it if you are not a tech aficionado. Some of the major leaps forward integrating AI into the workplace are being made by people with non-technical backgrounds. If you already use ChatGPT to craft a meal plan, you can likely use it or another AI solution to find a way to do your job better. Even school age children are now using AI to create a quizzes and study flash cards. These quizzes and flashcards can be created within seconds, whereas in the past they had to be created manually and could take hours or days.
The positive news is that where there's a will to adapt, do it, reinvent and reskill yourself, make automation and AI become a beginning and not an ending.