A common rhetoric you hear these days is that AI will take people’s jobs. I’m not going to argue that that won’t happen. I’m going to argue that that’s a good thing.
AI Will Replace Jobs
There’s no denying that some jobs will be replaced by AI. Even if the job is not fully replaced by AI, some of the work that a certain profession does will be done by AI, thus creating less work for that profession.
Developers, designers, writers, editors, photographers, videographers, etc… all had their work affected by AI to some extent. While AI’s output isn’t good enough to fully replace those jobs for most applications, for some applications, it’s good enough.
Need a banner? Don’t hire someone from Fiverr, ask AI to generate it for you.
Your company needs some tasks automated? Don’t hire a junior developer do automate those tasks, just ask ChatGPT to write a script for you.
You need footage for your YouTube Short? Don’t buy stock footage which pays a videographer, just have Sora generate it.
AI will, with absolute certainty, reduce the demand for, if not entirely eliminate, certain jobs.
Hallelujah!
It’s good that AI will replace some jobs. We should all be celebrating that, not dreading it.
If a certain task can be done faster and/or cheaper by AI, that’s a good thing. Yes, people will lose their jobs doing those tasks, but, as a result of those tasks becoming cheaper, it’s now easier to start and operate a business.
“Speed ups of 2x are nice, they’re great, we love them. Speed ups of 100,000x, change what you do. You do fundamentally different stuff and you start to rebuild your science around the things that got easy.” —Dr. John Jumper
A recent article claimed that approximately 1/4 of current Y Combinator startups have 95% of their code written by AI.
AI is already making it cheaper to start a business.
All that is to say that while employment (helping someone else’s company grow) will become more scarce, starting your own company will become easier and cheaper.
My prediction is that, in an AI world, we will see a shift from employment to entrepreneurship.
