How AI Is Changing White-Collar Work

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Julian Pintat, a freelance English-to-German translator has watched his 15-year career gradually unravel. Specializing in high-stakes fields like medical technology and pharmaceutics, his expertise has been repriced as an AI cleanup service. Fixing such basic flaws, which now constitutes 95% of his work, often takes longer than translating from scratch, he says--a frustrating reality that has halved his income and put life plans including marriage and starting a family on indefinite hold.