AI is Disrupting Everything
I think in the next 5 years, most jobs in my field – data analysis and visualization – will be replaced by AI. So I've been thinking about different careers I could jump to that would be better “insulated” from AI replacement.
It's possible that my current job will morph from designing and building interactive data visualizations to using AI to design and build them for me, with me validating the output. But that also means that fewer people will be able to do the work of data analysis and data visualization than are needed now. So if I'm not “lucky” enough to remain employed in my current field, I'll need something to fall back on.
One possibility I've been thinking about is getting a real estate license and becoming an agent, so I recently talked with a couple friends who work in real estate. One friend is an agent working at a large name-brand brokerage. The other friend owns his own small brokerage. They both gave excellent advice and had good insights and perspectives to share.
The broker friend said he can see a future where a “Zillow AI” can do 40%-50% of the work real estate agents do now. But there will still be a human element needed. People will still want a real live human being they trust to help them with a transaction as important as buying or selling a home.
These conversations have made me realize just how pervasive “AI” has become and how it is disrupting, well, everything. Jobs that you would think are relatively “safe” from being replaced by AI are still being impacted by it, even indirectly.
How we work, communicate, learn, teach, think, etc. – it's all being disrupted by AI.
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