How will AI affect my job?

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The answer to the question, “How will AI affect my job?” might be better stated: “Does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled parts of my job or the low-skill parts?” If it’s the former, your pay and business value will fall. If it’s the latter where AI can do the mundane parts of your job for you, then you might get paid more (and it might get more fun). 

15 Articles about how Businesses are using AI

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The Question that Will Predict How AI Impacts Your Job

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A clarifying question: does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled part of your job or the low-skill rump that you’ve not been able to get rid of? The answer to that question may help to predict whether your job is about to get more fun or more annoying — and whether your salary is likely to rise, or fall as your expert work is devalued. -Tim Harford

20 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

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Job listings looking for people with AI skills are rising fast – CBS News

How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours – Washington Post  

One in 12 US/UK Employees Uses Chinese GenAI Tools – InfoSecurity Mag

Will AI really wipe out white collar jobs? Tech insiders are split - CNN

Gen Z's broken school-to-work pipeline – Axios  

A robot stole my internship: How Gen Z’s entry into the workplace is being affected by AI – The Conversation

The rise of the AI-native employee – Elena’s Growth Scoop  

The new hot job in AI: forward-deployed engineers – Semafor

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready. - Washington Post

Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is A.I. – New York Times

AI is transforming Indian call centers. What does it mean for workers? - Washington Post  

Freelancers in AI earn over 40% more per hour than those doing non-AI work, according to Upwork’s platform data of - Axios 

Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced? - New York Times

The four-day work week gets a new booster: AI - Axios

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs – Wall Street Journal 

As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI – The Guardian

How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers' Careers -  Final Round AI

Will AI really wipe out white collar jobs? Tech insiders are split - CNN

AI is radically changing entry-level jobs, but not eliminating them – CNBC

‘Workforce crisis’: key takeaways for graduates battling AI in the jobs market - The Guardian

SEO Fades as GEO Rises

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“Google has made it clear: AI is building the future of search. Google now ranks based on contextual relevance, not just keywords or backlinks. It uses AI and vector embeddings to evaluate who created content, how trustworthy it is, and how it fits within its broader knowledge graph. Most SEO tools and practices haven’t caught up. As new APIs and metrics become more accessible, we’ll see a new generation of SEO roles and tools emerge that align with how Google actually works.” -Digiday

AI's Impact on Motivation

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Despite the performance benefits, study participants who collaborated with gen AI on one task and then transitioned to a different, unaided task consistently reported a decline in intrinsic motivation and an increase in boredom. Across our studies, intrinsic motivation dropped by an average of 11% and boredom increased by an average of 20%. In contrast, those who worked without AI maintained a relatively steady psychological state. -Harvard Business Review

Research: What Happens when Workers Use AI

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Our AI research findings carry important implications for the future of work. If employees consistently rely on AI for creative or cognitively challenging tasks, they risk losing the very aspects of work that drive engagement, growth, and satisfaction. Increased boredom, which our research showed following AI use, can also be a warning sign that these negative consequences might be on their way. The solution isn’t to abandon gen AI. Rather, it’s to redesign tasks and workflows to preserve humans’ intrinsic motivation while leveraging AI’s strengths. -Harvard Business Review

22 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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Why AI Interviews Could Be Bad News For Honest Designers – Andy Budd

The future of AI is in western Pennsylvania - Washington Post

I’m a LinkedIn Executive. I See the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder Breaking. – New York Time 

AI and the future of work – Cambridge

An AI tool for better career decisions – David Bauer  

How AI Is Helping Job Seekers Pivot to New Careers - Wall Street Journal 

AI poses a bigger threat to women's work, than men's, says report – Reuters  

If you haven’t been worrying about AI, it’s time to start preparing - Washington Post 

Something Alarming is Happening to the Job Market: A new sign that AI is competing with college grads – The Atlantic

The AI Threat for Coding Jobs Is Becoming Clearer – Bloomberg  

The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete  - Wall Street Journal 

AI isn’t ready to do your job – Business Insider  

Microsoft says AI coworkers are coming fast – Yahoo Tech

The Dangers Of AI-Generated Job Candidates – Forbes 

AI “interns” are too big to ignore – Fast Company 

Why AI Might Not Take All Our Jobs—If We Act Quickly – Wall Street Journal

Americans worry AI is coming for these jobs – Washington Post

Say Hello to Your New Colleague, the AI Agent – Wall Street Journal

Google AI Search Leaves Website Makers Feeling Betrayed – Bloomberg

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office – Anil Dash

Innovate Why AI Won’t Replace Venture Capitalists Any Time Soon – Inc 

13 jobs that don't require a college degree − and won't be replaced by AI – USA Today

22 Articles about how Businesses are using AI

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18 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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Why Most Companies Shouldn’t Have an AI Strategy

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Studies show that most organizations are immature when it comes to AI. By that, I mean that throughout the ranks—from the top executives through the rank and file—there is little knowledge of, and experience with, AI and its capabilities, and a reluctance to embrace data-assisted decision-making. All of this will mean any AI strategy will be misguided and inexecutable.  If you are the leadership team and you aren’t familiar with AI, how are you going to build a strategy for AI? You can’t. -Wall Street Journal

Turning AI innovations into measurable business outcomes

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A media company using generative AI for content creation must connect the project to business goals like increasing audience engagement or reducing production costs. Without this clear focus, the technology might produce content, but it may not resonate with the target audience or contribute to the company’s bottom line.  The successful integration of generative AI is not just about technology but about people. Collaboration between technical teams, business leaders, and end users is essential to ensure that AI projects deliver practical value. Generative AI is not just about creating new things but about creating value. - Mike Zhou writing in TechTalks

20 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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13 articles about how Companies are using AI

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Showing AI skills in your job search

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Given the emerging and quickly developing nature of AI tools, it can be tricky to display your expertise in a particular skill as a job candidate. Job applicants can build up their AI skills and stand out from the competition in three key ways:

Stay on top of developments. Find online resources and sign up to email lists to read about the latest trends and developments. The technology is moving so fast, the challenge is staying up to date. It is important to try  and build a fundamental knowledge of what’s going on behind the scenes with AI news.

Use AI in your own work. Seek out opportunities in your work to try and use these tools. That’s when you really start to understand the strengths and weaknesses and can learn to write smart prompts to get the best application out of them.   

Show how you’ve used AI successfully to achieve a specific goal. Indicate that you’ve added commercial value to your organization by using it. 

Adopted from a CNBC article by Jennifer Liu

What Would You Do?

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You have applied for a job and the interviewer asks you a question that lands like a bombshell: do you have a boyfriend? Then another: do people find you desirable? And a third: do you think it is important for women to wear bras to work? If you are a woman you probably know what you would do. Perhaps you would refuse to answer, complain or walk out. You would certainly be furious.

This is how 197 female American undergraduates, asked to imagine such an interview, said they would react. But they—and probably you—were wrong. The psychologists who asked them, Marianne LaFrance and Julie Woodzicka, orchestrated a real-life version of this ordeal, by advertising for a research assistant and arranging for male accomplices to interview the first 50 women who applied. 

Half were randomly chosen to be asked those three questions. Not one refused to answer, let alone complained or walked out. When they were asked afterwards (and offered the chance to apply for a real job), they said they had felt not anger, but fear.

Videos of the interviews showed how much this supposedly minor sexual harassment threw the women off their stride. They plastered on fake smiles.

In a final twist, the researchers showed clips of the videos to male MBA students. Fake smiles are fairly easy to tell from real ones: they involve fewer facial muscles and do not crinkle the corners of the eyes. But many of the men saw the women as amused, even flirtatious.

The Economist

Loyalty to the Company above all else

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Many companies have an unspoken command floating through the halls: "Bow to the organization above the rest!" There is a constant re-evaluation as to whether someone is playing their loyal role for the tribe. Talk of employees taking time for family and self-care is just that—talk. In practice, the expectation is that everyone will constantly genuflect toward the hierarchical (and often paternalistic) structure.

Someone who drinks to excess, yells at coworkers, holds racist views, drives away competent employees, has materialistic goals, and so forth will be tolerated, even rewarded, as long as their allegiance is true, helped by bringing in dollars or playing some other role that helps to perpetuate the organization.

On the other hand, someone with none of those vices might be cast aside if they are deemed not adequately sacrificing themselves on the altar of the organizational machinery.

In the children's book "Hope for the Flowers," Trina Paulus tells the story of caterpillars who form a tower with their bodies. They climb over each other in an attempt to reach the top. What reward waits for them? Nothing. Nothing at all. The struggle to rise only serves to stop them from cocooning and becoming the butterflies they were meant to me.

Stephen Goforth