What would you do if you believed your job was going to be taken by AI in 3 years?
For some, it’s to keep using it.
White collar workers like the short-term gain of work-life balance that AI brings, despite the long-term pain of it possibly taking their jobs by 2028.
Around 7 in 10 workers say it has helped them increase their creativity and productivity, while 4 in 10 say it has provided better work-life balance, reduced stress, and better decision-making.
“Just like the advent of computers, the Internet, or any new kind of transformative technology, I think folks in general tend to kind of lean into learning the tools, and they’re discovering some great benefits,” Dallin Hatch, Head of Communications at Udacity, tells Fortune.
Though AI may come for jobs in the long term, right now, employees are enjoying getting more of their time back.
The truth is, nobody knows how AI will affect their job until it happens.
But, Hatch argues, it could also open the next generation to a whole host of new skills and jobs.
“It’s really hard to know what the future looks like,” Hatch says. “There’s one path right where, you know, it does create more opportunity for people who learn those skills to do more.”
“They may be seeing a path where more of their opportunity to make an impact on the creative and guidance side with an AI tool is now at their fingertips, where before maybe they were so heads down, surface-level work that they weren’t always able to pop up.”
