AI is coming for your work.
Much of our work is utility. The things we do to keep life on this planet moving forward.
Work is tilling the ground, fixing the roof, and hauling goods. It’s also filing taxes, developing software, and diagnosing diseases. And it’s also defending in court, proposing a merger of companies, and mental health counseling.
Since the dawn of our species, we’ve found purpose in our work. We take pride in our utility. Some have even defined themselves as humans by the work they did.
We choose our work (if we have free will and the ability to choose) based on preferences, worldviews, and circumstances. You may love your work, or you may hate it. Regardless we understand our work’s importance, or at least necessity in our life.
But let’s face it; AI can do just about anything you or I can do. Maybe not today or in our lifetimes, but it’s coming. Eventually, anything we do that provides utility, AI will probably do.
We might be in for a reckoning when it comes to work as we know it today.
But would an AI ever think to itself, “I’d like to help this other AI.”
