Editorial: Who am I if AI takes over my job?
Tech billionaire Elon Musk predicts that in five years, there will be nothing that "AI can't do better than humans". Except maybe: being human. With that, he is wrong – and right.
AI is the new zeitgeist, AI pervades all areas of life, AI is revolutionizing the business and working world. This list could be continued indefinitely. And yet, the epochal dimension of this technology has not been fully grasped. I'm already asking myself: Who am I if AI takes over my job? I ask myself this in quiet moments of my news routine.
In the face of an artificial intelligence that calls into question much of what I have worked for over the years. Because, if one believes tech billionaire Elon Musk in the "Economist" podcast "The Insider", then AI will be smarter than the sum of all human intelligence in just five years. That sounds like hubris or a desire for one's own downfall - and such sentences undoubtedly cause discomfort.
According to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), AI primarily affects people in offices in their jobs: in software development, accounting, marketing - and also in journalism. And it affects managers in middle management, even if the current job cuts in German companies are driven more by cost pressure than AI. The emphasis is on "yet", as our weekend title shows.
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