AI will overhaul your job if you aren’t in the board room or the mail room
Preparing for the Future
In the coming years, AI will overhaul at least some portion of your job if you aren’t in the board room or the mail room. The specifics will vary based on industry and expertise, but the trend is unmistakable. While I don’t seek to be alarmist, I want readers to be prepared for possible future scenarios.
Experts disagree on whether AI will achieve high-level machine intelligence (HLMI) or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). However, they agree on a shortening timeline for the AI automation of most tasks. A 2022 survey of thousands of AI experts predicted a 50% chance of HLMI by 2060. However, a follow-up survey in 2023 moved this prediction up to 2047, a full thirteen years earlier.
HLMI is defined as the ability of unaided machines to accomplish every task better and cheaper than human workers. Importantly, this definition is about feasibility, not adoption. For example, an AI might be capable of serving as a jury member, but we would still likely have humans in the jury box.
AI and its effect on the corporate middle-class
While these predicted timeframes are still twenty years from now, jobs are likely to be impacted before this. Many…
