Will AI take your job?

No, it won't happen.

How? They will be cheaper than the AI licence. There is AI tax on everything connected to AI.

This why hi tech products are assembled by hand and not robots. Humans were cheaper.

I like AI, Iuse it increasingly often at work. But it requires a lot of effort and resources to use. There's an idea you can grab someone off the street with no skills and replace years of experience. ( Reduced staff costs). That hasn't been my experience of it.

OK, I could see that as perhaps a valid perspective

I myself thought we might be freed up to be more creative and have larger amounts of us taking part in entertainment, pursuing passions, live performance etc etc...

Yes AI predicts the next word, yes it is quite resource intensive atm but that could and probably will change....I'm not so sure as it gets more capable it won't result in large amounts of people finding themselves surplus to requirements over a relatively short timescale

It's the potential timescale bring too short to avoid major disruption has me worried.…I know its typical of YouTube disaster clickbait but the idea that driving could soon become something very few will get paid for (if the powers that be allow it) seems possible....then you look at the amount of people depending on it for a living

This why hi tech products are assembled by hand and not robots. Humans were cheaper.

But more that robots can't do alot of those tasks, physical dexterity is the hardest thing for AI or robots to replicate. A decade ago I worked in a pizza factory. They had robots set up to pick up mini pizzas and shove them into a carton. However they never worked properly . Therefore the very expensive robots were sitting there idle and us humans had to do that job. The principle reason was that baked pizza bases were never uniform and robots even in a fixed factory setting cannot deal with non uniformity. Think of the level of difficulty in order to get robotics or AI to replicate the work an electrician, plumber or roofer does?

As a long-time developer, I take with a pinch of salt all the claims about getting rid of programmers as AI is now creating code. I know I certainly wouldn't get on a plane where the code was written by AI - I know first-hand how complicated stuff gets! At the same time, it's proving useful to avoid figuring out repetitive tasks - but we have to remind our junior devs that they still have to understand (and remember!) what the code does.

Myself and colleagues think there are two real dangers:
1) AI eliminating low-level jobs means there will be no low-level people in the future to become mid & high level - we are locking ourselves in to the AI. Here's an example from banking, where an Irish boss in JP Morgan warns about the potential for AI to damage staff's understanding of the basics of banking.
2) Even if AI does prove useful in eliminating certain jobs, those dastardly corporations will want a return on their huge investment so once they have everyone locked-in, without staff with the knowledge to perform these tasks, then they'll jack up the prices hugely.

For another non-AI simple example, look how used to heated seats in cars everyone has got, and then BMW tried to make it a monthly subscription option to turn on, even if your car already had the hardware.

Speaking of OpenClaw.....

Can recommend this 3 hour podcast with Peter Steinberger who created OpenClaw.

A lot of the discussion is very binary and unrealistic

Comparing “Unaided Human” employees to “standalone AI” which is meant to somehow replace people, anyone who use these tools would quickly realise is nonsense

danger to your job is not AI on its own but another human who knows how to use AI tools better than you to deliver more value than yourself

Excel didn’t kill accountants but made their lives easier to concentrate on other type of work that don’t involve scribing in books all day

Its already happening.

AI replacing 35 jobs in Ericsson in Ireland. The ones who are being made redundant are hearing the news this week. The target is another 100 by the end of the year.

My team has been working on "AIifying" various different jobs. There are contractors in who are breaking all of the jobs into automation chunks, so that one employee supervising AI can do the jobs of 5 to 10 employees. The first to be effected were technical writers and scrum masters. If this one goes smoothly, next they will be going for the rest of the technical writers and then other jobs like monitoring or presentation building. Part of the process is asking the staff to submit parts of their tasks that they repeat every day where automation could "help" them do their job. No new junior developers are being hired because the plan is that the junior developer will now be AI.

You have to ask the question though, where are the senior experienced people going to come from if they arent moving juniors up the tracks to replace them.

As I said, it predicts the next word. It's incredible technology, nonetheless it has it's limitations.

AI replacing 35 jobs in Ericsson in Ireland. The ones who are being made redundant are hearing the news this week. The target is another 100 by the end of the year.

Anyone thinking that AI isn't going to slash jobs is living in la la land. The a reason why a lot of businesses are interested in AI is staff and overhead reduction.

You have to ask the question though, where are the senior experienced people going to come from if they arent moving juniors up the tracks to replace them.

They'll be parachuted in as "managers", i.e. people with a masters in business who haven't the first clue how to manage a team within a specific type of environment, but who have all the management jargon they need to get the role. These people will then rely on someone within the team that actually knows what they're doing.

This has already been happening for some time anyway.

Most of white collar work is just predicting the next token, be it word or code.

They'll be parachuted in as "managers", i.e. people with a masters in business who haven't the first clue how to manage a team within a specific type of environment, but who have all the management jargon they need to get the role. These people will then rely on someone within the team that actually knows what they're doing.

Yep. I've been working on-and-off for the last ten years in one particular establishment where the Big Boss is completely sold on the idea of "AI". The place is chronically understaffed, with everyone doing the work of someone else instead of their own. The Big Boss's solution to this has been to distribute reams and reams and reams of AI-generated SOPs.

The net effect has been piss off the people who know how to do the job, and to give a false sense of confidence to those who don't know how to do theirs. Since the Big Boss embarked on this AI crusade, staff turnover (usually citing burnout) has increased significantly. I'm immune to burnout because I set limits on the length of each contract, but I'll do just three more weeks for them in March, then that's it. AI won't replace me because it can't; my position will remain unfilled for the foreseeable future.

I well believe it; I’d advise anyone in private company white collar jobs to get their financial affairs in good order where possible. Knowledge workers in particular need to be very concerned- very senior people are safe-ish for the time being simply because decision making still has to be human led- for now. But even then, less senior positions required

Middle management are dinosaurs - those reporting to middle management have a big clock beside them counting down to zero - new entrants, with the right skills, are safe enough.

We’re going to hear of a lot of well known Irish companies announcing redundancies throughout 2026 and smaller Irish companies quietly letting people go