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AI.

JT

The new era has really landed,but the fallout has just begun. As AI becomes a 'tool' that industry quickly adopts because it's easy and obviously useful, I ask what now for designers, copywriters, editors etc?

I'm sure I'm not alone in my anxiety?

If there are no jobs for the millions that work in these areas, what on earth are we to do?

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  • After 34 years working in different areas of IT support, I can confirm that this is becoming more and more replaced by AI as well - so I took the opportunity to get out of IT all together and move into an area that this can't touch for quite some time.

    I'm renovating old properties that have been untouched for many decades and returning them to their original character but with all mod cons built in (insulation, new wiring, new plumbing, efficient heating, double glazing units in origina stlye windows, high speed internet & WiFi etc).

    Robotics that are capable to work in this sort of situation are a long way off yet due to the complexity of what you find as you strip off the old layers of wall covering, flooring and infrastructure.

    I estimate that the demand for property from population growth will outstrip the job losses from AI for at least my remaining working life.

    As for people joining the work force or in their first decades in it, you should think ahead and steer your career to something that is really hard for a clueless penny pinching manager to take away from you by giving it to some AI project.

    Or get a job repairing the AI sysetms when the unemployed staff take their revenge on it...

  • in reply to Iain

    I agree about renovation. On the other hand I expect robotics to make big strides into the new build housing business. Aside from 3d printing in concrete there are already robots that can lay brickwork. It's not difficult to imagine a situation where electrics and plumbing come to the site pre-asembeled in frames that slot into the walls / floors and only need a human to connect them to each other and fixtures. So a robot lays the bricks, slots in frames, puts in the floors, then humans comes and connects bits up and puts in fixtures like switches and sinks etc. Basically all the building work upto and including putting the roof on could be done by robots soon.

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  • in reply to Iain

    I agree about renovation. On the other hand I expect robotics to make big strides into the new build housing business. Aside from 3d printing in concrete there are already robots that can lay brickwork. It's not difficult to imagine a situation where electrics and plumbing come to the site pre-asembeled in frames that slot into the walls / floors and only need a human to connect them to each other and fixtures. So a robot lays the bricks, slots in frames, puts in the floors, then humans comes and connects bits up and puts in fixtures like switches and sinks etc. Basically all the building work upto and including putting the roof on could be done by robots soon.

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