AI Won't Take Your Job. But It Might Embarrass You If You Let It.
Every week someone publishes a new piece about how AI is coming for jobs. White-collar jobs, creative jobs, coding jobs, legal jobs. The tone oscillates between breathless excitement and low-grade dread, and the argument always comes down to the same thing: look at what these models can do.
And to be fair — the things they can do are genuinely impressive. Summarize a 200-page contract. Write production code from a vague description. Explain quantum entanglement to a ten-year-old. Pass the bar exam. These are tasks that humans find hard. Real hard. The kind of hard that takes years of training and still produces mistakes.
So I understand the anxiety. I really do.
But here is what the discourse consistently misses: the inverse is also true, and it is spectacular.