I’ve read a few articles from different authors stating that AI can be and will be easily trainable to take over the lower positions. The example they used is, believe it or not, HR.
The HR formulas of thought are easy. If this happens, then fill out this form. If that happens, then do this. If whatever comes up, then engage this party. Its this “if this, then that” is easy to define and follow through at a rapid rate with little to no error. Companies are already doing this internally to a point via chatbots. The next wave will be AI driven automated. Think of it as a chatbot on steroids that not only advises but also acts on behalf of you, for you.
You wish to change your mailing address and can’t find the links, no issue. Engage the chatbot that acknowledges your SSO as valid and it does it for you and send a confirmation email as to what was done.
You have an expense to claim, no issues. Upload a screenshot of the receipt, image recognition kicks in and\or sends your manager a link that directs them to the form its filled out along with the screenshot and all the details for them to approve or not.
The examples given went on and on but the point is, is that it seems that AI will most likely affect both tech and many other positions more than what people realize. The overall sentiment has gone from “AI taking over tech, well I’m not in tech so I’m safe” to “Oh sh$t, I may be affected too.”
Including MD’s, they too are not safe. The corp decision models that are being vetted but not released yet for public consumption are turning out speedy, accurate, valid, sound decisions. I’m sure that the CEO positions and a few levels lower will be safe, but below that….not so much.
“It’ll take a decade before any of that happens”. The same thing was said about gps, fingerprint and facial recognition taking decades to be portable. Two years later every cell phone has that capability now. It went from “maybe the next generation or so” to literally overnight in the grand scheme of things. Will this be the same? Time will tell.
So what do those who are replaced do? Not everyone can skill up on LLM coding and even if everyone could, how many LLM coders do you need?
Exciting times? Scary times?