re: Could AI take your job?

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The other half is mind numbing tasks like approving invoices, writing POs, writing internal reports, which I would and will gladly give over to AI

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Would you also be willing to take the reduction in pay for doing a lot fewer tasks when AI takes those from you?

Not sure if AI can nail this like I do.

Not what I do per se, but yes many roles within my company and day to day tasks like data processing and analysis are being heavily impacted. We aren’t replacing people who quit or retire from operations roles unless they are critical.

I don’t see how it won’t fundamentally change the accounting and financial services industries, along with consulting and marketing etc.

It is subtle in many ways. By making your job easier and faster you don’t have to hire a team so there are positions that just went poof vs 10 years ago. And your boss may eventually not need your role either.

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Could AI take your job?

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It's a very odd situation to be in but the answer to probably 90% of the people who post here is a resounding yes. I assume the vast majority of posters here are white collar in nature. If you're in sales, accounting, IT, construction management, legal, then yes. If you own the company, I'd guess you're in the best shape. But your competitors are using AI. Their supply chain is using it. Their subs are using it. If you're a contractor of any kind, your competitor is using it to doublecheck estimates. Your competitor is creating agents to crawl the web for better pricing, or to solicit cheaper distributors and subs. If you're a lawyer, or accountant, loan manager, etc the principal of your firm is using it to doublecheck your notes, and to rate your performance.

You have to use it as a tool. If there's 10 of you that could do your job, whomever is using AI to better their performance will survive in that arena. Unlike many naysayers, I do not think we're headed for some cliff. But you may be headed for a different field in your future. Stay open-minded and vigilant. There's ways to navigate this that don't end in Armageddon.

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I sometimes feel you're underappreciated on this site.

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I come from a long line of over-appreciated folks so this is refreshing to hear.

You are marginally an improvement over LCA130.

And we thank you.

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It would ace the exam and then definitely get the 6 year work requirement or whatever the number is these days

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Who’s name will be on the stamp?

But maybe with the theorized mass layoffs, there will be a push into blue collar jobs and all the infrastructure projects can be completed faster. New Orleans can become pothole free

My job. no. all the new, recent college grads they have hired below me, yes.

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I think my role could be partially replaced with AI

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This is similar to me. I’m a business analyst for a country wide company. Due to different laws by state our hierarchy is organized by states.

When I started I had 1 state. The norm was either 1 BI person per state or nobody (and somebody attempted to do the job plus their own). Then a couple years ago I got one of those empty states added. Now the norm is 2 states per BI person. Some bigger states still have 1, some people have more than 2 if the states are smaller.

Everybody always talks about how necessary my job is. There’s too much gray area for AI or a non expert to be adequate. What most don’t see is how much easier many of my responsibilities have become. I use AI to write complicated formulas (literally tell AI what I want and copy/paste). The company tools that we use are much better and more efficient than they used to be.

For the foreseeable future someone needs to be in place to do my job. But each year we see more combined roles. I’ve told others the more the company dictates more similarities between how states are run the easier it is to cut/combine positions.

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devastating impacts to the economic system

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Our government had to pump in trillions of dollars in 2020 for what they thought would be a few months of unemployment. If the tech lords are even half right, we are fricked. White collar work fuels the real estate market in every metropolitan area.