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Forbes
16 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
Yes, You May Lose Your Job To AI. So What Will You Do About It?
The Silicon Valley gospel has been preached from every conference stage: "You won't lose your job to AI, but to someone who learns to use AI." It's a comforting narrative that keeps executives sleeping soundly while their HR departments frantically roll out "AI literacy" programs. But this conventional wisdom misses the fundamental transformation happening right under our noses. Putting the notion of "AI won't take your job" into context. The real disruption isn't about individual workers becoming AI-savvy. It's about the obsolescence of entire job categories as AI becomes exponentially more capable, efficient, and effective at core business functions. The Exponential Reality Check Here's what should terrify you: Today is the worst AI will ever be. Several current AI models have surpassed the average IQ of humans. Most people have an average IQ between 85 and 115. Overall, about 98% of people have a score below 130, with the 2% above that are considered 'very superior'. With the latest versions of OpenAI's o3, Anthropic's Claude 4 Sonnet, and Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental all well above average human intelligence scores, we now have genius-level AI. Ranking The Smartest AI Models by IQ Level But that's just the beginning. AI capability is roughly doubling every six months. Let's do the math and be a bit more conservative and assume it doubles every year: I share this just for illustrative purposes. Humans typically think in a linear fashion. It's hard for us to think exponentially. And it's hard to not think this is all 'science fiction' and will happen years in the future. No. This is happening now. This is compound growth in action. When AI can already write better marketing copy than most marketers, analyze data faster than any analyst, and code more efficiently than many developers TODAY - imagine what happens when it's 32 times more capable in just five years. The Job Container Is Breaking For decades, companies have organized human effort into neat packages called "jobs"—performing tasks in predefined roles with specific responsibilities, reporting structures, and compensation bands. This industrial-age framework worked when work was predictable, hierarchical, and required sustained human attention. AI is obliterating this model. When artificial intelligence can write code in minutes, draft legal briefs in seconds, and generate marketing campaigns instantly, traditional job boundaries become arbitrary constraints. Why maintain a "Marketing Manager" role when AI can execute campaigns while a strategic thinker provides direction? Why preserve "Financial Analyst" positions when AI can process datasets that would take humans months to review? Think this is hype? Check out the latest release that dropped this week from HeyGen, an AI-powered video creation platform that allows users to generate videos with AI avatars, text-to-speech, and customizable templates. They just announced this week the HeyGen Video Agent, the first prompt-native creative engine designed to transform a single idea into a complete, publish-ready video asset. Whether that's a TikTok ad, a YouTube hook, a product explainer, or a quickfire UGC clip, the video is created by AI in seconds. The tool looks amazing, and it will surely be compelling to marketers at small companies to large global enterprises. However, this is another nail in the coffin for a creative agency or production company that was providing those services. We're entering the era of agentic content creation where intelligent systems don't just assist with ... More editing, but act on your behalf to create high-quality videos, end to end. Reading Between The Lines: The Amazon Example The companies that survive won't be those that train existing jobholders to use AI tools. They'll be the ones that completely reimagine how work gets done. On June 17th, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy published a memo with "Some thoughts on Generative AI." While highlighting AI's incredible applications across the company, he dropped this bombshell: 'As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs. It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.' This should be a wake-up call. It's a direct admission that AI will eliminate jobs, and it should terrify anyone doing repetitive or process-driven work. Amazon is just the latest in a number of companies that are signaling what is to come slowly, carefully, and publicly. Sure for now it's mostly tech companies like Duolingo, Klarna, and Shopify that are talking about being 'AI first'. In the case of Shopify, CEO Tobi Lütke told employees that teams must demonstrate why AI cannot fulfill a role before requesting to hire a human. This effectively positions AI as the default option for many tasks. This AI first approach might start in tech, but it won't end there. The Rise of Liquid Labor Forward-thinking organizations are moving beyond "jobs" toward what I call 'Liquid Labor'. In a hybrid human-AI workforce, Liquid Labor is the fluid combinations of human creativity, AI capabilities, and automated processes that adapt in real-time to business needs. Consider Netflix. They don't have traditional "TV Programming Executive" jobs. Instead, they have data scientists, content strategists, and algorithm specialists working in fluid teams that constantly reconfigure based on viewer behavior and market opportunities. This shift challenges everything: OK, this is scary. So What Should I Do? The obvious answer is to upskill yourself and learn how to use all of these AI tools. Are you using not just one model (say ChatGPT), but experiment with multiple models from Claude to Perplexity to CoPilot to Gemini to Grok. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, so learn what works best for you. This is table-stakes, though. Here's a more candid survival guide: Double down on uniquely human capabilities that AI can't replicate (yet): Develop higher-order thinking abilities that allow you to adapt and learn faster than AI can optimize for your replacement, focusing on skills that help you navigate complexity and change rather than specific technical competencies: Become the critical bridge between AI systems and human needs: Forge a unique professional identity: Urgently diversify your income streams and build wealth-generating assets while you still have earning power: Cultivate deep, value-creating relationships as your unique network of human connections becomes one of your most defensible and irreplaceable assets in the AI era: The Time to Act Is Now Most people think they have years to adapt. They're wrong. By the time AI visibly threatens your job, it's already too late. The exponential curve means: The window for repositioning yourself is now, while you still have leverage, income, and options. The transformation from jobs to liquid labor is already here. The choice isn't between learning AI or losing your job. It's between fundamentally reimagining your career or watching it become obsolete. Those who act now - building unique capabilities, creating new value propositions, and positioning themselves at the human-AI interface - won't just survive. They'll thrive in ways we can't yet imagine. Those who wait, believing that disruption is still years away, will discover that no amount of prompt engineering can compete with exponentially improving AI that works 24/7, never gets sick, and improves while you sleep. The question isn't whether this transformation will affect you, but whether you'll adapt fast enough. Now is the time to get AI ready.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
The debate over whether AI will create or take over jobs is heating up. Here's what AI leaders are saying.
Tech leaders are divided on whether AI will cause mass job destruction or create new roles. Anthropic's Dario Amodei said AI may cut 50% of white-collar roles. Nvidia's Jensen Huang disagrees. From Sam Altman to Demis Hassabis, here's what AI leaders are saying about the AI jobs debate. AI leaders are split on whether AI will take over jobs or create new roles that mitigate disruption. It's a long-running debate — but one that has been heating up in recent months. While tech leaders seem to agree that AI is shaking up jobs, they are divided over timelines and scale. From Jensen Huang to Sam Altman, here is what some of the biggest names in tech are saying about how AI will impact jobs. Dario Amodei AI may eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years. That was the stark warning from Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI startup Anthropic. "We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming. I don't think this is on people's radar," Amodei told Axios in an interview published in May. He said he wanted to share his concerns to get the government and other AI companies to prepare the country for what's to come, adding that unemployment could spike to between 10% and 20% in the next five years. He said that entry-level jobs are especially at risk, adding that AI companies and the government need to stop "sugarcoating" the risks of mass job elimination in fields including technology, finance, law, and consulting. Jensen Huang Huang, the CEO of chipmaker Nvidia, was withering when asked about Amodei's comments. "I pretty much disagree with almost everything he says," Huang said. Amodei "thinks AI is so scary," but only Anthropic "should do it," he continued. An Anthropic spokesperson told BI that Amodei had never made that claim. "Do I think AI will change jobs? It will change everyone's — it's changed mine," Huang told reporters on the sidelines of Vivatech in Paris in June. He also said that some roles would disappear, but said that AI could also unlock creative opportunities. Yann LeCun Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, wrote a short LinkedIn post just after Huang dismissed Amodei, saying, "I agree with Jensen and, like him, pretty much disagree with everything Dario says." LeCun has previously taken a more optimistic stance on AI's impact on jobs. Speaking at Nvidia's GTC conference in March, LeCun said that AI could replace people but challenged whether humans would allow that to happen. "I mean basically our relationship with future AI systems, including superintelligence, is that we're going to be their boss," he said. Demis Hassabis Demis Hassabis, the cofounder of Google DeepMind, said in June that AI would create "very valuable jobs" and "supercharge sort of technically savvy people who are at the forefront of using these technologies." He told London Tech Week attendees that humans were "infinitely adaptable." He said he'd still recommend young people study STEM subjects, saying it was "still important to understand fundamentals" in areas including mathematics, physics, and computer science to understand "how these systems are put together." Geoffrey Hinton You would have to be "very skilled" to have an AI-proof job, Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called "Godfather of AI," has said. "For mundane intellectual labor, AI is just going to replace everybody," Hinton told the "Diary of a CEO" podcast in June. He flagged paralegals as at risk, and said he'd be "terrified" if he worked in a call center. Hinton said that, eventually, the technology would "get to be better than us at everything," but said some fields were safer, and that it would be, "a long time before it's as good at physical manipulation. "So a good bet would be to be a plumber," he added. Sam Altman "AI is for sure going to change a lot of jobs" and "totally take some jobs away, create a bunch of new ones," Altman said during a May episode of "The Circuit" podcast. The OpenAI CEO said that although people might be aware that AI can be better at some tasks, like programming or customer support, the world "is not ready for" humanoid robots. "I don't think the world has really had the humanoid robots moment yet," he said, describing a scenario where people could encounter "like seven robots that walk past you" on the street. "It's gonna feel very sci-fi. And I don't think that's very far away from like a visceral 'oh man, this is gonna do a lot of things that people used to do,'" he added. Speaking at the Snowflake Summit in June, Altman said AI agents are already acting like junior employees. Read the original article on Business Insider
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Bosses want you to know AI is coming for your job
SAN FRANCISCO - Top executives at some of the largest American companies have a warning for their workers: Artificial intelligence is a threat to your job. CEOs from Amazon to IBM, Salesforce and JPMorgan Chase are telling their employees to prepare for disruption as AI either transforms or eliminates their jobs in the future. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. AI will 'improve inventory placement, demand forecasting and the efficiency of our robots,' Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a Tuesday public memo that predicted his company's corporate workforce will shrink 'in the next few years.' He joins a string of other top executives that have recently sounded the alarm about AI's impact in the workplace. Economists say there aren't yet strong signs that AI is driving widespread layoffs across industries. But there is evidence that workers across the United States are increasingly using AI in their jobs and the technology is starting to transform some roles such as computer programming, marketing and customer service. At the same time, CEOs are under pressure to show they are embracing new technology and getting results - incentivizing attention-grabbing predictions that can create additional uncertainty for workers. 'It's a message to shareholders and board members as much as it is to employees,' Molly Kinder, a Brookings Institution fellow who studies the impact of AI, said of the CEO announcements, noting that when one company makes a bold AI statement, others typically follow. 'You're projecting that you're out in the future, that you're embracing and adopting this so much that the footprint [of your company] will look different.' Some CEOs fear they could be ousted from their job within two years if they don't deliver measurable AI-driven business gains, a Harris Poll survey conducted for software company Dataiku showed. Tech leaders have sounded some of the loudest warnings - in line with their interest in promoting AI's power. At the same time, the industry has been shedding workers the last few years after big hiring sprees during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. At Amazon, Jassy told the company's workers that AI would in 'the next few years' reduce some corporate roles like customer service representatives and software developers, but also change work for those in the company's warehouses. IBM, which recently announced job cuts, said it replaced a couple hundred human resource workers with AI 'agents' for repetitive tasks such as onboarding and scheduling interviews. In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested on Joe Rogan's podcast that the company is building AI that might be able to do what some human workers do by the end of the year. 'We, at Meta as well as the other companies working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be sort of a mid-level engineer at your company,' Zuckerberg said. 'Over time we'll get to the point where a lot of the code in our apps … is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers.' Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, boldly predicted last month that half of all white-collar entry-level jobs may be eliminated by AI within five years. Leaders in other sectors have also chimed in. Marianne Lake, JPMorgan's CEO of consumer and community banking, told an investor meeting last month that AI could help the bank cut headcount in operations and account services by 10 percent. The CEO of BT Group Allison Kirkby suggested that advances in AI would mean deeper cuts at the British telecom company. Even CEOs who reject the idea of AI replacing humans on a massive scale are warning workers to prepare for disruption. Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chip designer Nvidia said last month, 'You're not going to lose your job to an AI, but you're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI.' Google CEO Sundar Pichai said at Bloomberg's tech conference this month that AI will help engineers be more productive but that his company would still add more human engineers to its team. Meanwhile, Microsoft is planning more layoffs amid heavy investment in AI, Bloomberg reported this week. Other tech leaders at Shopify, Duolingo and Box have told workers they are now required to use AI at their jobs, and some will monitor usage as part of performance reviews. Some companies have indicated that AI could slow hiring. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently called Amodei's prognosis 'alarmist' on an earnings call, but on the same call chief operating and financial officer Robin Washington said that an AI agent has helped to reduce hiring needs and bring $50 million in savings. Despite corporate leaders' warnings, economists don't yet see broad signs that AI is driving humans out of work. 'We have little evidence of layoffs so far,' said Columbia Business School professor Laura Veldkamp, whose research explores how companies' use of AI affects the economy. 'What I'd look for are new entrants with an AI-intensive business model, entering and putting the existing firms out of business.' Some researchers suggest there is evidence AI is playing a role in the drop in openings for some specific jobs, like computer programming, where AI tools that generate code have become standard. Google's Pichai said last year that more than a quarter of new code at the company was initially suggested by AI. Many other workers are increasingly turning to AI tools, for everything from creating marketing campaigns to helping with research - with or without company guidance. The percentage of American employees who use AI daily has doubled in the last year to 8 percent, according to a Gallup poll released this week. Those using it at least a few times a week jumped from 12 percent to 19 percent. Some AI researchers say the poll may not actually reflect the total number of workers using AI as many may use it without disclosing it. 'I would suspect the numbers are actually higher,' said Ethan Mollick, co-director of Wharton School of Business' generative AI Labs, because some workers avoid disclosing AI usage, worried they would be seen as less capable or breaching corporate policy. Only 30 percent of respondents to the Gallup survey said that their company had general guidelines or formal policies for using AI. OpenAI's ChatGPT, one of the most popular chatbots, has more than 500 million weekly users around the globe, the company has said. It is still unclear what benefits companies are reaping from employees' use of AI, said Arvind Karunakaran, a faculty member of Stanford University's Center for Work, Technology, and Organization. 'Usage does not necessarily translate into value,' he said. 'Is it just increasing productivity in terms of people doing the same task quicker or are people now doing more high value tasks as a result?' Lynda Gratton, a professor at London Business School, said predictions of huge productivity gains from AI remain unproven. 'Right now, the technology companies are predicting there will be a 30% productivity gain. We haven't yet experienced that, and it's not clear if that gain would come from cost reduction … or because humans are more productive.' The pace of AI adoption is expected to accelerate even further if more companies use advanced tools such as AI agents and they deliver on their promise of automating work, Mollick said. AI labs are hoping to prove their agents are reliable within the next year or so, which will be a bigger disrupter to jobs, he said. While the debate continues over whether AI will eliminate or create jobs, Mollick said 'the truth is probably somewhere in between.' 'A wave of disruption is going to happen,' he said. Related Content 3-pound puppy left in trash is rescued, now thriving How to meet street cats around the world 'Jaws' made people fear sharks. 50 years later, can it help save them?
Washington Post
20-06-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Bosses want you to know AI is coming for your job
SAN FRANCISCO — Top executives at some of the largest American companies have a warning for their workers: Artificial intelligence is a threat to your job. CEOs from Amazon to IBM, Salesforce and JPMorgan Chase are telling their employees to prepare for disruption as AI either transforms or eliminates their jobs in the future. AI will 'improve inventory placement, demand forecasting and the efficiency of our robots,' Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a Tuesday public memo that predicted his company's corporate workforce will shrink 'in the next few years.' He joins a string of other top executives that have recently sounded the alarm about AI's impact in the workplace. Economists say there aren't yet strong signs that AI is driving widespread layoffs across industries. But there is evidence that workers across the United States are increasingly using AI in their jobs and the technology is starting to transform some roles such as computer programming, marketing and customer service. At the same time, CEOs are under pressure to show they are embracing new technology and getting results — incentivizing attention-grabbing predictions that can create additional uncertainty for workers. 'It's a message to shareholders and board members as much as it is to employees,' Molly Kinder, a Brookings Institution fellow who studies the impact of AI, said of the CEO announcements, noting that when one company makes a bold AI statement, others typically follow. 'You're projecting that you're out in the future, that you're embracing and adopting this so much that the footprint [of your company] will look different.' Some CEOs fear they could be ousted from their job within two years if they don't deliver measurable AI-driven business gains, a Harris Poll survey conducted for software company Dataiku showed. Tech leaders have sounded some of the loudest warnings — in line with their interest in promoting AI's power. At the same time, the industry has been shedding workers the last few years after big hiring sprees during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. At Amazon, Jassy told the company's workers that AI would in 'the next few years' reduce some corporate roles like customer service representatives and software developers, but also change work for those in the company's warehouses. IBM, which recently announced job cuts, said it replaced a couple hundred human resource workers with AI 'agents' for repetitive tasks such as onboarding and scheduling interviews. In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested on Joe Rogan's podcast that the company is building AI that might be able to do what some human workers do by the end of the year. 'We, at Meta as well as the other companies working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be sort of a mid-level engineer at your company,' Zuckerberg said. 'Over time we'll get to the point where a lot of the code in our apps … is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers.' Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, boldly predicted last month that half of all white-collar entry-level jobs may be eliminated by AI within five years. Leaders in other sectors have also chimed in. Marianne Lake, JPMorgan's CEO of consumer and community banking, told an investor meeting last month that AI could help the bank cut headcount in operations and account services by 10 percent. The CEO of BT Group Allison Kirkby suggested that advances in AI would mean deeper cuts at the British telecom company. Even CEOs who reject the idea of AI replacing humans on a massive scale are warning workers to prepare for disruption. Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chip designer Nvidia said last month, 'You're not going to lose your job to an AI, but you're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI.' Google CEO Sundar Pichai said at Bloomberg's tech conference this month that AI will help engineers be more productive but that his company would still add more human engineers to its team. Meanwhile, Microsoft is planning more layoffs amid heavy investment in AI, Bloomberg reported this week. Other tech leaders at Shopify, Duolingo and Box have told workers they are now required to use AI at their jobs, and some will monitor usage as part of performance reviews. Some companies have indicated that AI could slow hiring. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently called Amodei's prognosis 'alarmist' on an earnings call, but on the same call chief operating and financial officer Robin Washington said that an AI agent has helped to reduce hiring needs and bring $50 million in savings. Despite corporate leaders' warnings, economists don't yet see broad signs that AI is driving humans out of work. 'We have little evidence of layoffs so far,' said Columbia Business School professor Laura Veldkamp, whose research explores how companies' use of AI affects the economy. 'What I'd look for are new entrants with an AI-intensive business model, entering and putting the existing firms out of business.' Some researchers suggest there is evidence AI is playing a role in the drop in openings for some specific jobs, like computer programming, where AI tools that generate code have become standard. Google's Pichai said last year that more than a quarter of new code at the company was initially suggested by AI. Many other workers are increasingly turning to AI tools, for everything from creating marketing campaigns to helping with research — with or without company guidance. The percentage of American employees who use AI daily has doubled in the last year to 8 percent, according to a Gallup poll released this week. Those using it at least a few times a week jumped from 12 percent to 19 percent. Some AI researchers say the poll may not actually reflect the total number of workers using AI as many may use it without disclosing it. 'I would suspect the numbers are actually higher,' said Ethan Mollick, co-director of Wharton School of Business' generative AI Labs, because some workers avoid disclosing AI usage, worried they would be seen as less capable or breaching corporate policy. Only 30 percent of respondents to the Gallup survey said that their company had general guidelines or formal policies for using AI. OpenAI's ChatGPT, one of the most popular chatbots, has more than 500 million weekly users around the globe, the company has said. It is still unclear what benefits companies are reaping from employees' use of AI, said Arvind Karunakaran, a faculty member of Stanford University's Center for Work, Technology, and Organization. 'Usage does not necessarily translate into value,' he said. 'Is it just increasing productivity in terms of people doing the same task quicker or are people now doing more high value tasks as a result?' Lynda Gratton, a professor at London Business School, said predictions of huge productivity gains from AI remain unproven. 'Right now, the technology companies are predicting there will be a 30% productivity gain. We haven't yet experienced that, and it's not clear if that gain would come from cost reduction … or because humans are more productive.' The pace of AI adoption is expected to accelerate even further if more companies use advanced tools such as AI agents and they deliver on their promise of automating work, Mollick said. AI labs are hoping to prove their agents are reliable within the next year or so, which will be a bigger disrupter to jobs, he said. While the debate continues over whether AI will eliminate or create jobs, Mollick said 'the truth is probably somewhere in between.' 'A wave of disruption is going to happen,' he said.
Daily Mail
15-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The AI predictions every Aussie needs to know - including the high-paying jobs that won't be impacted - amid warning the country will be unrecognisable in 10 years
An AI expert has warned the technology will leave Australia unrecognisable within the next decade thanks to a complete transformation in our jobs and lifestyles. Niusha Shafiabady, a professor of computational and artificial intelligence at the Australian Catholic University, warned drastic changes are just around the corner. She said certain jobs will no longer exist, traffic jams will become a thing of the past, and AI will become so personalised it will manage the diets of Australians and every aspect of their households. 'The jobs that will be first disrupted will be the ones driven by AI automation,' Professor Shafiabady told Daily Mail Australia. 'For example, an order at Hungry Jack's was taken (recently) by a machine. Those types of jobs are easy to implement using AI. 'Jobs that are based on repetitive tasks that can be programmed into a computer will disappear quickly.' Professor Shafiabady pointed to a 2023 report from the World Economic Forum that predicted AI would disrupt about 44 per cent of jobs. The International Monetary Fund reported last year that 40 to 60 per cent of jobs would be impacted in advanced economies including Australia. 'The roles that do not need critical thinking skills are the ones that will be disrupted quickly,' Professor Shafiabady said. One popular job that could be made redundant sooner rather than later is the personal trainer. Professor Shafiabady predicted they soon won't be needed to help someone get into shape. 'You will have an app that assesses your needs and provides you with guidelines on how to train yourself in the gym,' she said. 'It will be more flexible, you wouldn't have to book a specific time and you wouldn't have to pay much either. 'The AI will look at what you need and perform a biomechanical analysis of the body and what it needs that day and would propose the workout that's suited for that day. Every day you will get a new workout program.' Professor Shafiabady said the jobs that won't be impacted are the ones that require strategic planning and thinking. 'If you're the CEO of a company, your job is safe because we're not at a level yet where we'll allow strategic decisions to be taken over by machines,' she said. 'Jobs that need critical thinking skills are the safest jobs.' While many jobs will no longer be performed by humans, AI will make the lives of many Aussies much easier and more convenient. Professor Shafiabady doesn't think Aussies will be sitting in traffic, or even driving, in 10 years. 'We will have self-driving cars that might not even have wheels so you won't have to worry about driving,' she said. Professor Shafiabady predicted traffic conjestion will be significantly reduced with AI systems using real-time images from traffic lights to adjust signal timings. She said similar systems were already being implemented in some 'smart cities' including Singapore and Dubai. 'They look at the traffic in each junction and in accordance to that it (AI) optimises the traffic light's duration,' she said. 'Many people won't have to go out for their jobs, and (in conjunction with these) AI optimising facilities, we will have much less traffic on the roads.' Professor Shafiabady also described the impact AI will have on our lifestyles. 'In the morning, we will have AI systems with real-time weather predictions that will adjust the temperature in your room,' she said. 'A person will use the AI assistant to run down a schedule for the day and the AI assistant would have optimised the schedule throughout the night. 'So AI will think about how you can optimise your day in respect to what needs to be done.' She said we can forget about having to prepare their own meals. 'You will go to the fridge and the fridge would have analysed your nutritional needs and will provide the recommendation as to what breakfast would suit your day based on how intense your day is,' she said. 'If you want a smoothie it will be prepared by a robotic arm in your kitchen.' And Aussies, if they want, will only read or listen to the news they want to receive. 'Instead of going through all the headlines, the AI recommendation system, on a tablet or whatever you're using, will show the news that's of interest to you,' Professor Shafiabady said. She said Uber Eats won't be employing a person to deliver a meal, but it would likely be taken to your house via drone. 'And the dietary needs for the lunch would have been analysed. The ideal weight you want to be could be taken into account when ordering meal,' she said. And at the end of the day, AI will tell you how you can make tomorrow better. 'AI will review your day and provide suggestions for improvement to maximise productivity for the next day,' Professor Shafiabady said.
