Opinions often become polarized on whether AI will replace jobs with this endless race of chatbots performing everyday more advanced tasks.
I believe a good approach is to focus primarily on AI’s potential to eliminate meaningless tasks, i.e. the ‘bullshit jobs’ culture. Let’s be honest, this culture exists at every level within companies and is likely a major contributor to the current ‘all-time low’ in workplace mental health, despite the many well-being initiatives in place. So that’s a good news if we now have no choice but to pursue jobs that are meaningful and purposeful for us as humans.
The transition is not easy. I am not sure if we should plan too much of the journey because the danger is overengineering. Once we’re asked to be more human and passionate, we start engineering and end up implementing a n-step process that inevitably creates fabricated outcomes. Back to the starting point.
herefore, I do not propose a plan or a conclusion. I believe each of us will need to bring a personal touch of creativity, and that’s a good thing.
But I recommend the links below, which encourage us to rethink our roles in light of what it means to be human and explore the challenges that come with interacting with AI.
- “Humanity in the Age of AI”, Stanfort. Thank you Andre Lichtenstein for revealing it! I fully agree with you, and I am sure we won’t leave “the essence of our humanity” to the algorithms.
- “Will AI Kill Meaningless Jobs? And is that so bad?”, nytimes
I finish with some quotes which highlight these challenges. And thank you Meta for this picture showing a frontiere between humanity and A.I.
- “The excessive use of AI to streamline and optimize processes might lead to cultural or economic homogenization, stifling diversity in thought, creativity, and business practices.”
- “But in many other cases, humans will end up mindlessly skimming for errors in a mountain of content made by A.I. Would that help relieve a sense of pointlessness? […] “If A.I. does the work, and people babysit A.I., they’ll be bored silly.”
- “By leverage AI to support meaningful missions across socioeconomic and political lines […] (this will) foster confidence in unique human contributions and their application during future AI industry transitions”.