One day, your job will be replaced by AI. What do you do about it?

I’m a lawyer. I have been a lawyer for 13 years. I have noticed significant changes over the last 2 years in the number of my cases (down significantly) and the resources available to me practicing law (up significantly).<br><br>For example, I can simply ask ChatGPT to write me an entire legal memoranda based on a legal question, and it will do so with proper citations. It’s not always 100% correct, but it’s certainly good enough to now mimic the work of a reasonably experienced attorney.<br><br>**This doesn’t mean you’ll no longer have a job. It means your job will change.** For example, I will now be more focused on *reviewing* the work of AI, coming up with the right legal questions to ask, and being a *check* on the AI’s work. I’m also working on a new business opportunity where I would sell the work of AI to other lawyers.<br><br>**You can’t outcompete AI with regards to speed and by being a “dumb robot” doing repetitive or routine work.** AI is much better at that than you will ever be. **You can outcompete AI by (1) reviewing its work, (2) coming up with new “problems” to solve, and (3) being a check on its work.**<br><br>Every job will eventually be impacted, any many already are significantly impacted. **Now is the time to prepare.**<br><br>**Unskilled jobs are also at risk and it’s not all doom and gloom!** Are there certain jobs where success is just based on whether you can do the work fast enough? For example, fast food line work. No, I don’t think that AI will replace fast food line work. But let’s now talk about restaurants with machines that can make burgers. This exists already.<br><br>If you’re in a job where your *only* role is to perform the work and the work isn’t anything more than yourself, or a machine, completing a task, then you won’t have a job, likely soon.<br><br>But, if you’re in a job where you have to review the work of *you*, or a machine, and then do something else to complete the task, you will have a job.<br><br>For example, customer service. A lot of customer service work is nothing more than answering the same question over and over again. You don’t need a “real person” for that, and you don’t need a “real person” to do that work. But, you may need a “real person” working with the AI “assistant” to go beyond the simple question/answer. So you may lose your “basic customer service” job, but you could gain a “more advanced customer service job” where you assist the AI in answering questions, and help it learn.<br><br>Or, in other jobs, you may just be a machine operator that you press the button and tell the machine to go. So, not only will you lose your job, but you won’t gain anything back. That’s why it’s so important to be proactive and now learn how to work with AI, and not against it.<br><br>**How do you outcompete AI?** Well, in my opinion, you can’t. But, you can come up with ways that you will *work with it* and *assure that it is correct*. Or, you can be a machine operator. Or, you can do “human” work. That’s always a safe bet. But if your work is just the same work over and over again, you’re at risk of losing it. But you *won’t lose your job*, you’ll just lose the current version of your job. Your job will then change to be working with AI.<br><br>Now is the time to *prepare* for that change. So, I would have some sort of “backbone” that you fall back onto in the event you lose your job, like a college degree or a trade certificate. So, if lose your job, then you can now learn how to work with AI and be successful in your new version of your job.<br><br>**If you’re a parent, it’s also important to teach your children to work with AI, and not against it.** In my opinion, this should be part of your child’s education. Or at the very least, yourself. You should learn how to work with AI, and how not to be replaced by it.<br><br>**Oh, and if you’re a kid, don’t go to law school.**