{"id":96292,"date":"2025-08-05T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96292"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:53:07","slug":"these-40-jobs-may-be-replaced-by-ai-these-40-probably-wont-crumley-other-items-re-ai-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/08\/05\/these-40-jobs-may-be-replaced-by-ai-these-40-probably-wont-crumley-other-items-re-ai-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;These 40 Jobs May Be Replaced by AI. These 40 Probably Won\u2019t&#8221; [Crumley] + other items re: AI in general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/bruce-crumley\/microsoft-study-identifies-jobs-most-and-least-affected-by-ai\/91221483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>These 40 Jobs May Be Replaced by AI. These 40 Probably Won\u2019t<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from inc.com by Bruce Crumley<br \/>\n<em>A new Microsoft report ranks 80 professions by their risk of being replaced by AI tools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2507.07935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new study<\/a><\/strong> measuring the use of\u00a0generative artificial intelligence\u00a0in different professions has just gone public, and its main message to people working in some fields is harsh. It suggests translators, historians, text writers, sales representatives, and customer service agents might want to consider new careers as pile driver or dredge operators, railroad track layers, hardwood floor sanders, or maids \u2014 if, that is, they want to\u00a0lower the threat of AI apps\u00a0pushing them out of their current jobs.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Unfortunately, this is where the hyperscalers are going to get their ROI from all of the capital expenditures that they are making. Companies are going to use their services in order to reduce headcount at their organizations. <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-2000635294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CEOs are even beginning to brag about the savings<\/a> that are realized by the use of AI-based technologies: (or so they claim.)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cAs a CEO myself, I can tell you, I\u2019m extremely excited about it. I\u2019ve laid off employees myself because of AI. AI doesn\u2019t go on strike. It doesn\u2019t ask for a pay raise. These things that you don\u2019t have to deal with as a CEO.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My first position out of college was being a Customer Service Representative at Baxter Healthcare. It was my most impactful job, as it taught me the value of a customer. From then on, whoever I was trying to assist was my customer &#8212; whether they were internal or external to the organization that I was working for. Those kinds of jobs are so important. If they evaporate, what then? How will young people\/graduates get their start?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also related\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/microsoft-list-jobs-replaced-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft Releases List of Jobs Most and Least Likely to Be Replaced by AI<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from\u00a0futurism.com<br \/>\n<em>Great news \u2014 if you&#8217;re a dishwasher.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesignal.substack.com\/p\/microsofts-edge-over-the-web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft\u2019s Edge Over the Web, OpenAI Goes Back to School, and Google Goes Deep<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from thesignal.substack.com by Alex Banks<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Alex\u2019s take:<\/strong> We\u2019re seeing browsers fundamentally transition from search engines ? answer engines ? action engines. Gone are the days of having to trawl through pages of search results. Commands are the future. They are the direct input to arrive at the outcomes we sought in the first place, such as booking a hotel or ordering food. I\u2019m interested in watching Microsoft\u2019s bet develop as browsers become collaborative (and proactive) assistants.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theneurondaily.com\/p\/everyone-s-an-ai-tv-showrunner-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Everyone&#8217;s an (AI) TV showrunner now&#8230; <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from theneurondaily.com by Grant Harvey<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Amazon just invested in an AI that can create full TV episodes\u2014and it wants you to star in them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Remember when everyone lost their minds over AI generating a\u00a0few seconds\u00a0of video? Well, Amazon\u00a0just invested\u00a0in a company called\u00a0Fable Studio\u00a0whose system\u00a0called Showrunner\u00a0can generates\u00a0entire 22-minute TV episodes.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<b>Where does this go from here?<\/b> Imagine asking AI to rewrite the ending of Game of Thrones, or creating a sitcom where you and your friends are the main characters. This type of tech could create personalized entertainment experiences just like that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Our take:<\/b>\u00a0Without question, we&#8217;re moving toward a world where every piece of media can be customized to you personally. Your Netflix could soon generate episodes where you&#8217;re the protagonist, with storylines tailored to your interests and sense of humor.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And if this technology scales, the entire entertainment industry could flip upside down. The pitch goes:\u00a0<i>why watch someone else&#8217;s story when you can generate your own?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-2000635294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The End of Work as We Know It <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from gizmodo.com by\u00a0Luc Olinga<br \/>\n<em>CEOs call it a revolution in efficiency. The workers powering it call it a &#8220;new era in forced labor.&#8221; I spoke to the people on the front lines of the AI takeover.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yet, even in this vision of a more pleasant workplace, the specter of displacement looms large. Miscovich acknowledges that companies are planning for a future where headcount could be \u201creduced by 40%.\u201d And Clark is even more direct. \u201cA lot of CEOs are saying that, knowing that they\u2019re going to come up in the next six months to a year and start laying people off,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re looking for ways to save money at every single company that exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But we do not have much time. As Clark told me bluntly: \u201cI am hired by CEOs to figure out how to use AI to cut jobs. Not in ten years. Right now.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/mckinsey-consulting-firms-ai-strategy-89fbf1be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, \u2018This Is Existential.\u2019<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wsj.com by Chip Cutter; <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>behind a paywall<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em>If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/08\/chatgpt-users-shocked-to-learn-their-chats-were-in-google-search-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from arstechnica.com by Ashley Belanger<br \/>\n<em>OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private\u2014and highly personal\u2014chats to appear in search results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Fast Company exposed the privacy issue on Wednesday,\u00a0reporting\u00a0that thousands of ChatGPT conversations were found in Google search results and likely only represented a sample of chats &#8220;visible to millions.&#8221; While the indexing did not include identifying information about the ChatGPT users, some of their chats did share personal details\u2014like highly specific descriptions of interpersonal relationships with friends and family members\u2014perhaps making it possible to identify them, Fast Company found.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.character.ai\/character-ai-launches-worlds-first-ai-native-social-feed\/\"><strong>Character.AI Launches World\u2019s First AI-Native Social Feed<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from blog.character.ai<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Today, we\u2019re dropping the world\u2019s first AI-native social feed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Feed\u00a0from\u00a0Character.AI\u00a0is a dynamic, scrollable content platform that connects users with the latest\u00a0Characters,\u00a0Scenes,\u00a0Streams, and creator-driven videos in one place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is a milestone in the evolution of online entertainment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For the last 10 years, social platforms have been all about passive consumption. The Character.AI Feed breaks that paradigm and turns content into a\u00a0creative playground. Every post is an invitation to interact, remix, and build on what others have made. Want to rewrite a storyline? Make yourself the main character? Take a Character you just met in someone else\u2019s Scene and pop it into a roast battle or a debate? Now it\u2019s easy. Every story can have a billion endings, and every piece of content can change and evolve with one tap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These 40 Jobs May Be Replaced by AI. These 40 Probably Won\u2019t &#8212; from inc.com by Bruce Crumley A new Microsoft report ranks 80 professions by their risk of being replaced by AI tools. 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