AI Is Going To Impact Your Job, Here’s Why You Should Let It
Jacob Morgan
5x Best-Selling Author, Futurist, & Keynote Speaker. Founder of Future Of Work Leaders (Global CHRO Community). Focused on Leadership, The Future of Work, & Employee Experience
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Conversations about AI are nearly unavoidable these days. It seems like everyone has an opinion about how AI is taking jobs from humans and how it will impact and transform our work situations. Many of those conversations are full of fear that the machines are taking over and soon employees in all industries will be replaced.
Here’s the truth: yes, AI is impacting jobs. But we should let it.
That doesn’t mean that machines will soon leave us completely unemployed and take over our world. Instead, it means that AI is augmenting and transforming jobs to make them better. Just because it’s new and unknown doesn’t mean it has to be scary. Here are three reasons you should let AI impact your job.
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AI removes mundane tasks.
AI is built to do repetitive tasks like data entry, analysis, and scheduling. The best applications for AI are areas where humans don’t typically want to spend their time. AI takes over those boring, mundane tasks and does them faster and more accurately than humans, which gives humans a chance to work on other projects that are more exciting and engaging. Think of AI as a skilled assistant who frees your schedule to work on more interesting things.
AI provides a chance to learn new skills.
A growing number of companies, including Accenture and McDonald’s, are re-vamping their workforces with AI without losing a single human employee. That’s because employees that are being replaced are being up-skilled to work in other areas of the company. Accenture replaced many of its entry-level data entry employees with machines but then trained the human employees on business strategy and moved them to other areas of the company where their skills could be better used. By allowing AI to work in areas where it thrives, humans have the chance to expand our skillsets and careers into new areas. AI could be the boost that takes your career to the next level and encourages you to learn something new.
AI allows us to focus on human qualities.
Even the most advanced robot can’t collaborate with humans or be as creative as a human can. There are certain skills that are uniquely human and can’t be duplicated by a machine. As AI takes over many of the mind-numbing tasks humans used to do, it frees us to focus on what makes us human. We get to build relationships and be innovative.
AI in the workforce is unavoidable. Instead of living in constant fear of being replaced by machines, we should be excited for the change. Embrace AI and encourage its growth in your organization. AI is going to impact your job, but with the right attitude, that impact could be a great starting spot for your next step forward.
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1 年Yes I think so: if you are not as dumb as Elon Musk even then most of us will be jobless. But comfort yourself as even Elon will. be ??
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4 年Very nice post again Jacob Morgan!
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4 年Great article Jacob. Interesting perspectives by John and Iker. The challenge is the pace of AI is all-encompassing but how organizations of all sizes and workforce upskill/ reskill at an equal pace which is a challenge. The skill gap will continue to exist. We will also need to prepare school/college graduates with new skills as they enter in the new work environment.
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4 年Great article, Jacob. I'm a fan, and I agree with a lot of what you said, but I have a different take on the subject. As a software architect/developer, I see the changes coming every day, in the form of automation, algorithms, and the coming world of AI, and how each is changing every facet of the small business world, emphasis on small business. AI is changing the small business world, and fast. Even in my industry, smart AI designed software systems are being developed that code other software systems. Let that sink in a minute.? There’s a lot of conversations occurring in board rooms around the country about transitioning people in today's workforce into other careers to make up the difference, and for many big companies, it's a great solution, but for most small businesses, the numbers don't crunch very well.?Add the global pandemic into the mix and the numbers are even worse as companies are forced to automate even more or risk going out of business. Of course, displacement is not going to occur in all market segments. Like most things in life, there will be winners and losers. In some industries/markets, jobs will be created, but in others, jobs will be lost. Where it makes sense, and when it’s cost-efficient to do so, automation (AI) will become the norm, not the exception. Technology will lead the way; that's why it exists, but the closer we inch forward to a fully data-driven world, the more certain jobs in smaller markets will be displaced.