Believe It Or Not: There Are Still Generative AI "Have Nots"

 Of course, it's the ethical responsibility of career coaches such as myself to ask: How has generative AI already impacted your work or, the shift in career paths you intend to make?

A stunner: There still exist those who we might classify as Gen AI "have nots." That disruptor for careers as well as how it factors into investing in degrees hasn't been on their radar. 

For example, a new client enthusiastically informed me that she has purchased books to prepare for the LSAT. She has had it with being in social work. 

How could a person with that much drive miss all the information about how much practicing law has already been impacted by Gen AI? Cleary indicates that AI now factors into everything. A&O Shearman, in conjunction with Harvey, has developed an AI app that performs partner-level analysis in practices ranging from antitrust to cybersecurity. Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp went on record projecting that AI could eliminate some junior lawyer jobs. Meanwhile that law firm is hiring technologists and data scientists.

In communications, be it journalism or marketing content-creation, there's also the resistance to opening up to how quickly Gen AI has accelerated in its capabilities. The resumes, for instance, don't list advanced experience with AI tools. The conviction is that the human touch will continue to dominate. However, Contently, which supplies communications to enterprise brands, has introduced the AI Studio. That's an AI-powered platform to, as its website announces:

"Orchestrate multiple AI agents to research, write, fact-check, and optimize every piece of content - at scale." 

Instead of massive number of content-providers there will a less a number of content strategists and content editors. 

And what's with all this balking by university professors about students using AI for research and reporting? Why are those skills still being taught? From OpenAI to DeepMind, AI makes much of those tasks obsolete. Incidentally, an aspect of being a "have not" is not understanding what work has become an anachronism. Instead, professors might conduct courses in building effective slide decks. That entails both an art and a science.

With tariffs overwhelming supply chains there aren't a lot of "have nots" in that loop. The analysis even drills down to what product part impacted by tariffs can be replaced with those which aren't.

The group most disadvantaged by being a "have not" is the retired professional who decides to return to the workplace. It used to be that they just needed to catch up with what technologies were needed to do a particular task. Now, they have to have their heads wrapped about AI and be fast in leveraging the tools. You bet, employers got it that AI can speed up performance. 

UPDATE:

AI creator Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei predicts, reports Axios:

"AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years ..."

Already, 8.2 percent of the 18 - 24 demographic are jobless, documents The Wall Street Journal.

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