With the spectre of AI ever present, graphic designers are understandably worried about the impact the new technology will have on their jobs. As our piece on the impact of AI on graphic design discusses, the genie is very much out of the bottle and now creative professionals find themselves striving to keep human design a more attractive option than anything created by a machine. Though Bill Gates famously said he thinks all but three jobs are at risk from being taken by AI, I remain hopeful that there is plenty of room for both machine and person in the graphic design field, but it will require self-awareness from designers.
"So are we just cooked?" asks a recent Reddit thread from a designer who is four years out of college. " Any other jobs i can get with such a degree now that design is kind of becoming obsolete?"
