Yes, AI Is Coming For Your Job

While the majority of us are embracing AI in our work and personal lives with open arms, there is still an army of worried sceptics genuinely fearful about their impending obsolescence.

The answer is yes, AI IS coming for your job.

The steam engine retired the horse and buggy.

The industrial revolution replaced countless jobs.

The internet turned physical libraries into experiences, instead of single sources of truth.

On the flip side, the calculator didn't make mathematicians obsolete.

Robotics have enhanced medical care and saved millions of lives, reducing risk and allowing for more efficient surgeries. Engineering, design, and manufacturing have all contributed to our lives in a meaningful and positive way. And advances in production in the building industry have at least tried to address the housing crisis the world is facing, not just Australia.

And AI is already making your working life simpler, faster, more accurate. You’ve been using machine learning (early AI) for a long time without even realising it.

What is going to happen next?

The big question is, should you be worried or excited?

Take a moment to think about automating the tedious tasks that make Mondays feel like the worst day of the week. Catching up on your emails, prepping for your first meetings, and figuring out how to prioritise your tasks for the week.

Egalitarian in nature, the AI revolution is an upskilling opportunity for everyone. A continuous metamorphosis of our roles. Not 'career development'. Not a promotion in a hierarchical sense either, but an enhancing of human potential. AI won't make us redundant; it will elevate our capacity to reach new heights. With the daily tedium taken care of, sit back and think about what you'd really like to achieve in your role, or for your business. You might like to see your employees engage in more productive meetings and discussions, executing plans and releases of products faster than ever before – knowing that automation has taken the manual labour out of testing.

We imagine businesses operating at lightning speed. Innovation happening in leaps and bounds. Advancements in fields like healthcare, education, and environmental protection could accelerate at the pace we so desperately need them to.

Genuine work life balance is in sight

Here's the kicker: with AI shouldering the burden of repetitive tasks, we could be getting closer to a utopia of work-life balance. Imagine you clock out from work, and your time is genuinely your own—no emails ruining your evening, no deadlines haunting your weekends. Instead, there's time for family dinners without the ping of a notification, for hobbies that don't involve a keyboard, and for self-care that is more than a Sunday afternoon. While a lot of us really love our jobs, not many of us love boring, repetitive, cumbersome tasks.

We don’t believe AI will necessarily reduce your workload or mean that you’ll be able to work less than a full time week. But whatever industry you happen to be in, innovation and creativity is a constant and elusive wish. Really embracing AI tools will mean that you can turn that time and effort into a meaningful evolution of your business. Even having the opportunity, if you like, to spend some time outside the office thinking about work strategy and ideas is a luxury many of us do not have.

Uncertainty is as certain as taxes. But rather than dread the unknown, let's embrace the challenge. Humanity didn't reach the top of the food chain by playing it safe. We are explorers, inventors, artists, and dreamers. We adapt, and we overcome. Isn’t evolution the story of civilization?

How do we get to that happy place?

At Arteri, we are constantly looking for ways to automate. We get excited about how we can utilise the right kinds of AI to solve complex business problems. When we come together as a team, we are harnessing our human connection and our ideas, and then using all kinds of AI tools to put ideas and plans into action, fast. We are not afraid that AI will replace us, and you needn’t be afraid that we will not be here for you. But we will keep striving to deliver the most sophisticated and efficient projects with the right balance of AI and the human touch.

You can read some more about how we feel about embracing AI over here.