The wave of AI-enhanced jobs is coming sooner than you think
this year new college graduate season may worry about finding a job sustain them financiallywill either have a positive impact on the environment or towards social justice. But the real concern may be that they will get a job that requires more AI skills than they can provide.
Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient, a consulting firm focused on helping large corporations such as Walmart and McDonald’s digital transformation.
“There won’t be a job that doesn’t incorporate some form of AI in a very meaningful way, not even in the next five years, in the next year or two,” Vaz said. Luck in a recent interview. “I mean.”
Vaz, who has worked for Sapient for nearly three decades, then rattled off a list of commonly practiced occupations—janitor, security guard, designer. “In every one of those areas, AI will be integrated, even if you don’t know about it,” he said.
Unfortunately, in some cases, the AI boom is making recruiting tech talent more difficult, not easier, according to Vaz. Vaz believes that AI talent is scarce because although creative AI has been around for several years, it is only in recent months that the concept of “AI jobs” has solidified. According to him, the bad news for candidates is that very few of them actually have the necessary skills.
According to a recent report Goldman Sachs reportBreakthroughs in AI could add nearly $7 trillion to global GDP, as well as boost productivity growth by 1.5 percentage points by 2033.
“While there is considerable uncertainty about the potential AI can create,” Goldman Sachs economists Joseph Briggs and Devesh Kodnani wrote in an April 2023 report. The ability to create content that is indistinguishable from human-made products and breaks down communication barriers between humans and machines, Goldman Sachs’s Devesh Kodnani wrote in an April 2023 report, “will create content that is indistinguishable from human-made products and breaks down communication barriers between humans and machines.” reflects a major advance with potentially major macroeconomic impacts.”
For example, at a more granular level, Publicis Sapient works with a large security company, and Sapient’s current mission is to research whether AI models can predict crime waves and provide warnings. How to prevent. “I think the role of technology is to make our jobs easier,” Vaz said. “Human beings are not born to work in factories, on assembly lines forever. If this technology makes work easier and better, they can build on it.”
Once again, Vaz considers himself a technological optimist; Many experts do it More ominous look. “I believe it will give us superpowers,” he said. “You will forget things you used to do this way and relearn what you need to do using these tools. And you will never stop learning and relearning because these tools will evolve.”
“Evolution” might be an understatement. Andy Bird, CEO of marginAmerica’s largest educational company, speak Luck last year that AI is actually developing faster than real life, which has caused the number of AI-related courses Pearson offers to skyrocket.
But for those who feel behind the curve, Vaz warns not to panic. “Don’t obsess over keeping up with the pace,” he says. “I told my teenage son ‘what you know is irrelevant. Don’t, even for a second, focus on knowing many things.’ The only skill you need to hone is the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn. What you learned yesterday, you may need to learn again tomorrow.”
Continuously build that learn-unlearn mechanism, he says. “It’s the only way you can sustain yourself in the world” — largely because AI is an augmentation tool that “is probably the biggest change humanity has seen since the wheel,” Vaz says. or electric”. “I’m trying not to exaggerate it, but I think this is equally important.”
