People in Texas sounded off on AI job displacement, with half of people who spoke to Fox News convinced that the tech will rob them of work. America is at a once-in-a-generation turning point around work: 70% of us are unhappy with what we do; three-quarters of us say we plan to look for new work this year. Altogether, 100 million Americans will sit down with someone they love this year and say, "I'm not happy with what I'm doing and want to do work that makes me happy." The problem: Most of the advice we receive around work is outdated, misguided or flat wrong. I've spent the last six years crisscrossing the country collecting hundreds of stories of Americans who made enormous changes in their work lives.

Will AI replace your job? Artificial intelligence is more dangerous than nuclear weapons. That's according to Elon Musk, who warned against the dangers of this technology at South by Southwest in 2018. Zeb Evans is the founder and CEO of ClickUp, a company that offers project management solutions for businesses. Evans is based in San Francisco and founded ClickUp in 2017.

Artificial intelligence is a buzzword this year – every marketer is discussing it, and it's found its way into the world of digital asset management. But what is the hype all about? We looked around and found that AI is not something new; it has already been affecting our work lives for a while. Further transformations are on the way and you should expect them soon. Since AI is such a buzzword, it's important to elaborate.

Over the last several decades, technology has changed tremendously. I can't tell you how many times my father has told me about a computer science class he took in college where the computer required punch cards to function (sorry to date you Dad!). Fast-forward and we have artificial intelligence at the palm of our hands, hands-free texting in our cars and smart watches that monitor our health from our wrists. But it's not only our personal lives that have been affected by these changes in technology, it's our work lives as well. At PGi, we're always trying to innovate our products to make your work life easier, so naturally we're curious about new technology and the effect it has on our work lives. Over the next few weeks, we will be producing a blog series on just that--the future of work.

The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for thousands of years, dating back to some of the earliest Greek myths. Those early stories show our infatuation with the concept that we could imbue machines with that most human of qualities: independent thought. Like many of humanity's greatest technical achievements, the quest to create AI is fundamentally about making our lives easier. We are now entering an era where the reality of AI is beginning to catch up with the myths and science fiction stories of our youth. Advances in the area of machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) have resulted in devices and applications that we interact with daily.