{"id":23503,"date":"2026-07-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=23503"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:47:09","slug":"why-ai-isnt-going-to-take-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/why-ai-isnt-going-to-take-your-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AI isn&#8217;t going to take your job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026but someone who can do it with AI might.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zRv5kW5mAxM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve heard a lot of different takes on how AI is (or isn&#8217;t) going to lead to mass unemployment and a total collapse of the economy. Almost all of it is either sensationalist doom-porn, or riddled with unquestioned assumptions and lazy thinking. But this guy brings up some really interesting points, and seems to have a better answer on it than most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, we won&#8217;t really know for sure until this all plays out. And I do know some programmers who really have lost their job due to AI-driven downsizing, so depending on the career path, it&#8217;s still a very valid concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for how this will all play out with books and writing, I&#8217;m not too concerned. I do think there&#8217;s a fair chance that in the long-term, most successful writers will use AI in their creative process. But the tools really aren&#8217;t anywhere close to completely replacing authors\u2014not even the frontier models like Fable and Sol. I say that as someone who writes with AI, and who has generated and read more than a million AI words in the last 12 months. And even if the models do become that good, writing is more similar to flying and airplane than operating an elevator. I don&#8217;t think AI will ever be able to fully replace an author&#8217;s vision and voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026but someone who can do it with AI might. I&#8217;ve heard a lot of different takes on how AI is (or isn&#8217;t) going to lead to mass unemployment and a total collapse of the economy. Almost all of it is either sensationalist doom-porn, or riddled with unquestioned assumptions and lazy thinking. But this guy brings&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/why-ai-isnt-going-to-take-your-job\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why AI isn&#8217;t going to take your job<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2018,1712,1794,2808],"class_list":["post-23503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ai-writing","tag-generative-ai","tag-long-form-podcasts","tag-maxinomics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-675","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23569,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503\/revisions\/23569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}