With generative AI (AI) and the rapid emergence of all types of productivity-enhancing tools, professionals are increasingly concerned about their ability to keep their jobs.
Discussing the issue of AI replacing jobs, Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI and now CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, noted that "some creative jobs may go away, but maybe they shouldn't have existed in the first place if they're not producing high quality content. " Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, expressed similar sentiments, suggesting that programming may have run its course with the rapid spread of AI and advising the next generation to choose more secure career paths such as biology, education, manufacturing or agriculture.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined the discussion, emphasizing that the field of software engineering is extremely vulnerable to AI automation. Amodei said, "If you look at the field of programming, this is where AI is making the most progress. What we've found is thatDistance AI Writing 90% CodeThe world of AI may only be 3 to 6 months away, and in 12 months we may be in a world where AI writes almost all of the code!. "
1AI notes, however, that Microsoft's latest Job Trends Index report presents a different picture. The report states that, contrary to popular beliefAI is creating jobsHowever, executives are only hiring skilled workers with AI capabilities. However, executives are only hiring skilled workers with AI capabilities, which has contributed to a 142x increase in LinkedIn members adding AI skills like Copilot and ChatGPT to their profiles.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently said that AI will replace humans in most jobs, but in certain areas of life, like playing hockey, humans will retain their unique position. After all, who wants to watch a computer play sports?
However, there are still key challenges to the adoption of AI in workplace scenarios, such as a lack of human touch. As you know, many organizations have adopted AI to cut operational costs. Some publishing organizations followed this trend and laid off most of their staff. But they soon realized that this was counterproductive and had to rehire professionals to correct AI mistakes and add a human touch.
Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and chief product officer at Anthropic, recently made a similar point to Amodei, noting that the role of software engineers is rapidly evolving, and that they'll soon start inspecting AI-generated code rather than writing it themselves.
Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), also claimed that AI could force software developers to stop programming, prompting them to upgrade their skills for the new frontier. Garman stated, "If we look out 24 months from now, or a little longer -- I can't predict exactly when -- it's possible that the majority of developers will no longer be programming."
