A short interview segment (host Matt Wolfe and a guest) discussing whether AI is taking jobs. The guest argues that AI is not directly taking jobs but that people who learn to use AI will outcompete others; advice: become proficient with AI tools, analogous to learning computers and productivity software to advance one’s career.
There's this narrative of AI is taking jobs. Is it something people should be worried about? And what advice would you give people that are either entering the workforce or maybe looking to go on a new career path?
I don't believe people are losing their jobs to AI. I think people that are using AI are going to be farther ahead than people that don't use AI. So if you really think about how this job equation is going to go every single time, somebody that knows how to use AI is going to move forward faster and is going to get those jobs. So the only advice would be to say, hey, get really, really comfortable using AI. And I'll give you a quick analogy for this, right? I'll use the analogy of using computers. People came in and said, oh, are the computers going to take away my job? There's no way a laptop, my MacBook Pro, is not going to take my job. You still need a human operator sitting down and typing on this keyboard to be able to make that happen. We're in a very similar sort of stage right now where you better learn how to use that laptop and your spreadsheets and your Microsoft Word and so on and so forth. And that was true for the era before, and now it's true right now that you better know how to use AI, understand how you can improve your productivity. So I think that is the path to success.
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