There are probably three main reasons not to worry – yet – about the AI that’s coming for your job. First among those reasons is that there’s absolutely nothing anyone can do about it. Second and third, though are some realities which are unfashionable, inevitable, and mean it might be a bit longer than most people think before a whirring, bleeping box of silicon starts to force you out of your seat.
The first of those is something that most people are aware of: AI hasn’t yet replaced every musician, artist and (gulp) writer in the world because right now, it isn’t good enough to do so. Recent examples have infamously included shots of electoral hopefuls surrounded by potential voters, which would have worked quite well if some of those voters didn’t have somewhere between three and six neatly-braided fingers and hats labelled in Martian.
