Kevin Surace argues AI automates tasks, not jobs. A writer using AI to draft posts can produce a year's content in one week instead of spreading it across 52, freeing time for other work. The technology augments roles rather than replacing them.
People keep asking if AI will take their job, but they're asking the wrong question entirely. If I'm the blog post writer and I used to get— by the time I did it and thought about it and looked at it and edited and changed it, maybe I got out one a week and my job was to get out 52 a year. Okay, great. I could do 52 a week now if I had the topics. Now it's still my brain. I'm coming up with the topics, right? But once I come up with the topics and feed it a little bit of things, I get something back in 30 seconds that's frankly as good or better than I could have written. It certainly has more ideas than I had alone, and I can edit that to make sure it's accurate. In our voice, etc. And I'm probably done in, I don't know, 10 or 20 minutes. I put that aside and I can do the next one. And practically, I may be able to do all 52 weeks in one week. And now I have 51 weeks left to do other tasks. So it's not taking your job, but it is taking a certain task and making you incredibly productive vis-à-vis what you were before. And that, I think, is ridiculously exciting.
