How AI will steal your job? And why you should be happy about it?
We are about to enter the creator’s economy. We all saw travel bloggers, TikTok influences, or people who simply film their day-to-day life and are able to make a living from it. And it’s only a beginning of the new world in which most people provide products and services as independent creators. I believe our purpose as human beings is to create. Why most of us don’t do it? We were taught to be regular, be boring, find a “normal” job. And it’s all about to change.
Imaging AI is doing all the “plumbing” in any work, even creative work. There is no need in driving cars, no more assembling electronics all day long in the factory, forget about manually putting bricks into walls. I don’t even think the programming will be the same as it’s now. There is a big chance that many programmers are replaced by AI in the first place.
Soon, we no longer need to make routine and boring work. So, what’s left to us? The creative decisions! Let’s take for example a composer — simply a person who listens to bad music all day long, iterate on it, decides the further direction, so you can listen to the good music only.
Some people may say, but I LOVE driving trucks! I’ve been doing it all my life! But do they really or they were compelled to love it? As children we were open to all creative activities: drawing, singing, playing, performing, telling stories, role-playing, acting, constructing, making risky and exciting stuff. We age and society oblige us to learn “useful” activities to make a proper living. Soon no more!
Picture the new world. All we must do in our new jobs is to make creative choices. I doubt there will be a need to make them 40 hours per week.
What now? People left with a lot of free time and probably some of us with basic income. Another thing humans love as much as creating something is to consume content. The need for quality content is at an all-time high. People have tons of spare time. Free time allows us to draw, sing, film, take photos, write books, create music, dance, act, architect, build, invent, study, teach others, create tools, do science, discover, explore, craft things, make games, and design. And all of it will be consumed easily by other fellow creators.
Practically, any industry will be creative. People employed by a car company, for example, will be innovators and designers. Most of the work will be done on a per-project basis. You are free to do the exact project you actually want to do. Even in the present times many creative industries already work that way.
Isn’t it exciting to have a lot of free time, make things we love, and enjoy the content from other creators?
