Make AI Your Ally, Not Your Replacement
There will be jobs where AI replaces people.
Those AI roles will probably be figured out by someone else, and people in those jobs will see a decline in work or will see their role disappear.
I also expect there will be jobs (most remaining jobs, really) where AI enhances what people are already doing.
Learning to use AI in your job does not mean you are "training your replacement."
It does not show people how AI can do your job.
It teaches you how AI can benefit your work. It teaches you exactly where your skills are critical in the process.
Learning to use AI in your job also makes room for your job to expand. And discovering how your job will expand is easiest to discover when you're playing with AI in your work.
Adapting to this AI era in your work shows your clients, your boss, your colleagues just how important your work is.
Not your AI's work. Your work.
If you're wondering where you can add AI to your process, here are some ideas:
* Where do you most commonly get stuck in your workflow? Assume AI can help you in some way - if it could, what would it do? Which AI that's currently available can do this (or, perhaps, do at least some of this?)
* Which part(s) of your work are repetitive or dull? How can AI help?
* What work would you give to a perky quirky intern? The "training" you would give an intern can be used to develop prompts for AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude+.
* Where would you like more space or time in your workflow? How can you use AI to create that space?
* If you don't like your work and have been looking for a change, use AI to explore new possibilities. Ask it how it can help you (and, if it overloads you with too many options at once, tell it to go slow and just talk through one idea or question at a time).
If you have questions about how this might look in your work, feel free to ask in the comments below. 👇
