At some point over the last few years, the conversation stopped being “will AI take some jobs?” and became “which jobs is AI not going to take?” This is a subtle but deeply unsettling shift. The robots are not coming; they are already here, they already have your colleague’s job, and according to investment bank Morgan Stanley, eight percent of jobs worldwide have already gone.
So when Bill Gates, one of the men most responsible for putting a computer on every desk in the world, warns us that most of us will eventually be replaceable, it is probably worth listening. He did leave four jobs off the list. Probably not yours, though.
