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# AI will create jobs. It will also break many jobs
- URL: https://www.techstories.co/ai-will-create-jobs-it-will-also-break-many-jobs/
- Published: 2025-01-02T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-05T16:01:59.000Z
- Description: Will more jobs be lost than created?
- Author: Paul Mah
- Tags: Unfiltered, AI

AI will create new jobs. It will also break many jobs. The only question is whether more jobs will be lost than created.

It's been some weeks since I've posted an *UnfilteredFriday*, and nothing dampens the irrational optimism of a new year than something unfiltered.

This time, it involves your job.

**The glorification of AI**

It's easy to get swept up in the tidal wave of AI-optimism. I mean, AI's so useful, isn't it?

We use AI for:

- Complain for spilled food delivery. Ok it's only slightly but...
- Troublesome work reports or homework.
- I even know someone who used AI to write prayers.

A lot of the posts on LinkedIn is at the point of breathless exuberance though. Rafael Brown had enough of it when he penned his irate post yesterday.

Calling out a "cheesy" post predicting "AGI, ASI, UBI, the continuation of the AI bubble", he wrote:

> "This is shameless AI evangelizing on a hype bubble. And it is pure marketing and sales. There’s no definition of anything. But there’s a sprinkling of AI celebrity names."

> "And there’s a promise that everyone will deliver magically into an AI utopia. And there’s the warning that you better jump in..."

You get the point.

**AI will lead to job change**

AI is currently so hyped up we neglect to consider the flip side of the coin. Which is: successful AI will lead to changes in jobs. Seismic changes.

AI researcher and Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li said so last year at a conference. The once-chief scientist of AI/ML at Google, whose PhD thesis years ago led to the creation of the seminal ImageNet project - widely considered as a foundation for modern GenAI said:

> “I know jobs will change. Every profound technology has changed jobs; there will be pain. If we're not careful, we'll have social unrest."

> "If we're not careful, we harm the most vulnerable people, whether they're women, children, people of color, or people from different backgrounds. We have to be careful..."

**Don't wait. Prepare today**

Yesterday, I wrote that we need to develop AI resilience.

I don't often repeat myself, but I feel it is vital for us to work at staying employable in the age of AI:

- Develop skills that are hard for AI to replicate.
- Use AI to do existing work faster and better.
- Broaden work competence and expertise.

After all, there is no going back. What are you working on to stay ahead?