The phrase “AI will take all our jobs” gets thrown around a lot. It’s become a kind of cultural shorthand, a headline-ready fear that’s easy to repeat and hard to unpack. But most of the time, it is just that… a fear. A lazy one at that. It oversimplifies a complex, messy, and uncomfortable truth.
The reality is more nuanced. AI is not coming for all of us. Not yet. And not equally.
now is the time to ask yourself, honestly: Am I doing work worth doing?
Right now, AI is not replacing the top performers. It is not outperforming the truly creative, the deeply empathetic, or the strategically agile. What it is doing, however, is quietly and efficiently exposing the roles where human input has become little more than process.
If your day is made up of tasks that involve following a standard operating procedure, regurgitating known facts, or ticking off boxes, then you may be in trouble. Because AI is not about robots in suits taking over boardrooms. It is about algorithms doing the work that used to take five people and two weeks, in few seconds.
To quote Warren Buffett, “When the tide goes out, you discover who’s been swimming naked.” In this case, AI is the tide. It is receding fast, and it is revealing the kinds of work that were already vulnerable, long before the arrival of large language models or generative tools.
What AI Does Well
AI excels in areas that require speed, consistency, and scale. It is brilliant at:
- Repeating the same task over and over, without loss of quality
- Spotting subtle patterns across large datasets
- Writing coherent paragraphs of text or generating working code in seconds
- Solving optimisation problems at a level no human could manage manually
- Synthesising mountains of information into digestible summaries
This is not theoretical. This is happening now, across industries. From legal contracts to marketing copy, from logistics to recruitment.
What AI Still Cannot Do
But there is a long list of things AI simply cannot handle with any real depth or clarity. It lacks:
- True ethical reasoning
- Emotional insight or genuine empathy
- Understanding of human context
- The ability to weigh subtle judgements
- A sense of purpose or the capacity to care
AI can do the task. It cannot understand why the task matters or if we should it first place.
It has no internal compass. It does not grasp nuance. And it certainly does not know how to lead a team through complexity, conflict or change. Those are still human domains.
You Still Beat It Here
So what do you have that AI does not?
- Contextual awareness: knowing when a decision goes beyond data
- Relationship building: earning trust, navigating teams, managing emotions
- Ambiguity tolerance: thriving where there are no clear answers
- Original thinking: creating something new, especially under pressure
If that sounds like your working day, you are not being replaced. You are being augmented; empowered!
Don’t Fear It. Amplify Yourself.
The wrong question to ask is “Will AI take my job?” The better question is, “Is the work I’m doing worth amplifying?”
AI is not your executioner. It is a spotlight. It reveals whether the work you are doing has depth, relevance and long-term value.
If your role relies on originality, insight, leadership, or strategic curiosity then AI is a new kind of superpower. It can remove the noise, reduce the grind, and let you focus on the parts that matter.
If your job feels like rinse and repeat, then yes, you should be worried. But not because of AI. Because the job was already heading for redundancy.
So now is the time to ask yourself, honestly: Am I doing work worth doing?
If the answer is yes, AI is not your threat. It’s your amplifier. It’s your superpower.
