AI Won’t Take Your Job, But Someone Who Knows How to Use It Might

By Scott Richards, Executive Strategist | 35 years in Digital Transformation & Growth

The Fear vs. the Fact

Every time a new technology arrives, the headlines predict mass unemployment. Steam engines, spreadsheets, and the internet; they were all accused of erasing jobs. Artificial intelligence is simply the latest entrant on that list. Yet history keeps repeating the same lesson: technologies don’t remove work so much as they reshape tasks. The roles that disappear are replaced by new ones that reward higher-order thinking, creativity, and strategic intuition.