As fears continue to grow around the rapid improvement of AI, many have been left thinking that its simply a matter of when and not if the technology takes their job.
Experts in the field have been warning for some time that companies will naturally favour artificial intelligence over human workers, considering it would be far cheaper, quicker and easier to hire a robot worker.
While some of us are more worried about a different kind of takeover by AI, especially considering the large part in plays in many people's lives, it doesn't seem unrealistic to suggest that there could be a significant recession for office workers in the near future.
Bill Gates and Microsoft have both previously revealed some of the jobs that would be most at risk, with historians and translators unsurprisingly topping the list, while remarkably it seems as if some believe that writers are also in trouble, despite human emotion and experience being fundamental to almost every great literal piece ever written.
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Jeff Bezos, who is best known for founding Amazon, has now revealed the one skill that human workers must possess if they want to avoid being replaced by AI, which feels quite hypocritical given his own company continues to lay off thousands of workers in favour of the technology.
Speaking at Italian Tech Week in 2025, the billionaire businessman issued a stark warning about the future of work but suggested that creatives should still be safe, since AI is still unable to effectively create ideas of its own without at least a prompt to help it along.
He emphasised his point by saying: “Put me in front of a whiteboard and I can generate a hundred ideas in half an hour."
Unsurprisingly, the billionaire isn't particularly worried about losing money of his own and doesn't need to worry about paying the bills, so he is probably more enthusiastic than most about the future of AI.
The 62-year-old said: “I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive.
"[AI will make every business’] quality go up and their productivity go up. Every manufacturing company, every hotel, every consumer products company. That’s hard to fathom, but it’s real.
“There’s never been a better time to be excited about the future", he concluded.
Unless we're able to develop an AI that can continue paying us our wages after losing our jobs, then it's difficult for many to be 'excited' about the future right now.
But it seems as if you'll still be able to find a job in this dystopian future run by billionaires so long as you retain a creative spark, but it's probably also worth hanging on to your bottle caps as a form of currency given the likelihood of society collapsing, whether that be by AI's hand or humanity's.
Topics: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Jeff Bezos, Technology, Jobs
James Moorhouse