Adgorithms Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way You Think About Your Job

The rapid and inexorable progress in the development of artificial intelligence has raised understandable concerns over the risks the technology poses to job security. There is a palpable fear that humans will quickly become obsolete, with some suggesting that up to half of existing jobs could be automated. This viewpoint is oversimplified, write Ravin Jesuthasan, Tracy Malcolm, and George Zarkadakis for the Harvard Business Review, as it fails to consider that automation will affect only certain tasks within specific jobs of a given occupation (when evaluated this way, only 9% of jobs are at a high risk of automation). In this more nuanced understanding, AI will simply force us to rethink our job descriptions, rather than eliminating work altogether. Already AI is having a significant impact on how we do our jobs, from streamlining administrative tasks to expediting medical research, and this rapid evolution requires a new way of thinking about the value of an employee and her performance.