No job will escape being replaced by AI

An economy grows, but it does not hire.

Ask anyone today who is trying to change jobs in the United States, how is the job market? and the response usually comes loaded with frustration, stalled hiring, stagnant salaries, more freelancers than permanent employees, and ever-decreasing benefits.

At the same time, artificial intelligence has never received so much money, millions are flowing towards ever larger data centers, chips and models, while the promises of efficiency do not seem to materialize at the same speed and it is precisely in that clash where the uncomfortable question arises. Is AI linked to work stagnation or are we being led to believe it? While economists claim that the real impacts of AI on employment will still take a decade to emerge, executives at big technology companies tell a different story.

From a good source.

For them, the revolution has already begun and one of the most powerful names to reinforce that narrative is Sundar Pichai, se alphabet, controller of Google, in a recent interview with the BBC, Pichai stated that artificial intelligence is, “the most profound technology that humanity has already developed and that will inevitably bring disruptive changes to society”, he even went so far as to say that no job is truly secure, not even his.

According to the CEO, leading a company like Google can become one of the easiest things for an AI to take on, the message is clear, the transformation is inevitable, painful and everyone will have to adapt, “certain jobs are going to change, some will be impacted and as a society we need to talk about it” Pichai said.

The speech sounds considered, almost irresponsible, but it carries a familiar fatalism, AI is coming whether we like it or not and resistance will be useless, the problem is not talking about artificial intelligence, we are talking about it all the time, the question is who is leading that conversation and with what interest, Pichai is a neutral observer, he runs one of the world's largest companies in AI and has a lot to gain by reinforcing the idea that mass automation is inevitable.

In practice, what we see is not the complete elimination of jobs, but rather their fragmentation, which has already been used to reduce formal ties, salaries and stability, without really replacing workers from start to finish.