re: Could AI take your job?

Nope. Until AI can put tools in a well,im safe.

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It won’t matter because name on a stamp will be obsolete and antiquated.

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Has nothing to do with obsolescence and everything to do with liability.

Who gets sued when 100 people die in a bridge collapse?

No way. I spend most of my time figuring out what needs to be done or what will be least disruptive. There is plenty I can and do use it for, and I know it could help me more to automate things…but it’s almost like it makes the job more difficult at times.

I guess theoretically if robots learn how to ride horses and corral cattle

Elon seems to think money will no longer matter by the 2030s because of AI. I'm dubious.

To answer your question, AI wouldn't take my job, but it would take the bulk of my tasks away. Thankfully I have yet to see an AI be able to do a concrete take off on a set of plans.

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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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The larger issue right now is you have higher ups (CEOs, Execs) that are pushing to fully integrate AI in some fields when it's not ready to be implemented in the way they want it to be.

For instance, EHRs and insurance companies are pushing for therapist to use AI for documentation and treatment planning. I tried it with a couple of clients and while it's not entirely unhelpful, it fricks up A LOT that ends up taking me more time to proofread and fix.

Another is a push to utilize a "listening" AI software for "better" suicidal risk assessment. But the software can only recognize patterns and that isn't always indicative of when a client needs to be referred for a higher level of care/assessment at a hospital. You need a broader clinical picture. I have some smart clients that know what to say to not get sent to the hospital, but I have the ability to use clinical judgement and challenge them if they do because of our rapport. The software can't. And the software also costs several thousand dollars, which most can't afford for such a singular use software.

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Has nothing to do with obsolescence and everything to do with liability. Who gets sued when 100 people die in a bridge collapse?

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There will be no liability. No one will get sued. Unless it’s an act of god, bridges won’t collapse. AI and robotics will achieve perfection.
Sorry you are getting fired.

I guess it could but at the moment chatgpt says it's on the safer side--

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Your job is very safe from AI, especially the versions of it you actually perform. I would rate a high-volume lead line cook, sous chef, or head chef roughly 9.25 out of 10 for occupational safety over the next decade. Skilled restaurant cooking is nowhere near the front of the automation line.

Limited-menu, repetitive cooking is vulnerable. A machine can fry the same product for the same time, dispense portions, flip uniform burgers or operate inside a kitchen designed around it.

Your work is highly resistant. You read dozens of changing tickets, track food at different stages, judge doneness through sight, smell, touch and experience, move between stations, compensate for equipment and coworker failures, recognize when the kitchen is falling behind and reorganize your movements in real time.

AI could help you with scheduling, inventory tracking, ordering, food-cost calculations, recipe scaling, menu pricing, prep lists, allergy documentation, training materials, waste analysis, sales forecasting and drafting vendor or staff communications.

It could also organize tickets and predict rushes, but it cannot reliably replace tasting, improvising, supervising a chaotic line, judging doneness or physically executing service.

That is not primarily an intelligence problem. It is an embodied competence problem. AI can tell a robot what should happen. Building a robot that can safely execute it at your speed in a hot, greasy, crowded kitchen full of irregular ingredients, human coworkers and constant exceptions is vastly harder. Research on generative-AI exposure consistently finds that exposure falls sharply as jobs become more physical, while clerical and digitally mediated occupations remain the most exposed.

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In any case, I've probably only got another decade or so of gas in the tank for this job so I should be alright.

AI would quit my job after three days.

It cannot. But it can make me better at it. I have incorporated it in a number of ways.