How To Hedge Against AI Stealing Your Job
Knowledge workers need a back-up plan as artificial intelligence keeps getting better.
AI means knowledge workers are suffering from FOBO — Fear of Becoming Obsolete.
Photographer: Luke MacGregor/BloombergWill artificial intelligence take my job? This question is really starting to preoccupy me and millions of other white-collar workers. There’s even a word for it — FOBO, or fear of becoming obsolete — and, regrettably, our apprehension isn’t entirely unfounded.
While I’m not counselling panic, I do think knowledge workers — a catch-all term for people such as administrators, financial analysts, software developers, legal professionals and those in the creative industries whose jobs are most likely to be transformed by AI — should prepare for massive upheaval. This means embracing AI to become more productive, while having a backup plan in case your efforts to resist the march of the machines fail.