If you're worried about losing your job to AI, be more like a five year old

When my kids figure out that they can get me to do something for them instead of doing it themselves, they do. This weekend, it's been asking me _constantly_ to get their apps open because they don't like having to take the time to do it themselves. It's a great example of what I mean. <br><br>In the past, if you learned how to do things for yourself, you could make more money, be more successful, and live a better life. Now, that's not true. If you can effectively train a model to do some part of your job for you, you can then step in and fix the things that the model does wrong. If you can communicate the results effectively, you can just step back and let the model operate. The quality of your results might actually improve, even if you don't actually know what you're doing.<br><br>It's not just AI. Anywhere you can find tools to help you do your job better than before, you will be more valuable and less likely to be replaced by someone who either trains a model or is more skilled. I'm not worried about losing my job to AI. I think I'll be able to train my models to do my less enjoyable tasks, or automate them. I'll be able to step back and enjoy my job more, with the tools available to me.<br><br>I think the most _likely_ people to be replaced are those who lack a natural ability to use and invent new tools. If you have to be told how to do something, you will probably be replaced. If you're self-motivated and can teach yourself new tools like Socratic, you'll have no problem.<br><br>The only thing you have to do is let go of the idea that you have to be a particular way to do what you want to do. You don't have to be a dancer or a singer or a volleyball player to have a successful career. If you can train an AI model to be a singer for you, for example, then you can suggest to the model how to create new songs. Heck, you could just collect the data on what people like, and repetitively send that out and be successful. It doesn't have to be the model as just a tool, but what you could be using it for. People are naturally curious, and they'll seek things out that they have never seen before; but they will repeat the things they enjoy.<br><br>I recently did a project where I had to communicate the financial effects of a change in personnel to the employees. I could have spent hours running reports and building a spreadsheet, or I could use Socratic to ask for the dollar values of each piece of data and build the spreadsheet in 10 minutes. At the end of the day, I had a 35% improvement in my income as a result of the work I did in less than 1 hour. There's no way I could have made the money I did by doing it the 'traditional way'.<br><br>I've been studying these AI models since November 2022, and it's been an incredibly fun time. The amount of work I can do in my previous job is much better than before, I can spend my free time doing what I enjoy by creating the things I want to see, and I know that I have a future in which my success is not limited by my 'obligations'. I can 'work' more, and be 'more successful' because I can teach the machines to do what used to take me hours to do. I can watch a video now, for example, and write a post about it in a few sentences.<br><br>I think the advice not to be worried about losing your job to AI is becoming less applicable by the day. I see so many people who are 'worried', but then fail to learn the new tools that might help them. Yes, it takes time to learn something new. But how much time will you spend trying to _not_ lose your job? If you can learn the tools that might replace you, and then use them to make yourself more valuable, you not only are not going to lose your job (because you're more effective), but you might even be able to step back a bit and enjoy your success.