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How secretly at risk is your job? Obviously, any employee worries about things like layoffs, companies going out of business, or the market changing. But there's a secret hidden risk to your job that is not talked about too often, and that's AI—artificial intelligence. Sure, you've heard about it, and you may have some concerns about it taking over employment opportunities, but you're probably not that urgently worried about AI taking over your job tomorrow. You might worry about some other applicant taking over your job, but not AI.

Well, even if it doesn't happen tomorrow, the probability of that happening is a lot higher than any other risk. Here's an article from Fortune Magazine, a major financial publication, saying that half of bosses plan to fire and replace you with AI in the next 5 years. And actually, the subheadline is even higher than that—70% of bosses surveyed plan to hire staff with AI. So they might not be looking to replace you at 70%, they're looking to replace you at 50%, but they are going to hire AI.

Now, a couple of things to keep in mind: this is based on what bosses know about AI right now. Many bosses don't know that much about AI; they don't know what it can do, they don't know how advanced it is. Once they start hiring people that are AI employees—not people, but actually AI agents—and they start to see, "Hey, wait a minute, this AI stuff can do more than I thought it could," this statistic might actually go up. They might be looking to fire more employees sooner than 5 years.

And you might think, "Well, my job is not a tech job. I don't need to worry about it." But some of the jobs we've seen replaced with AI—teachers, waitstaff, and programmers—were not jobs that were expected to be replaced.

Here’s the other thing: even if your particular job can't be fully done by artificial intelligence, what companies will do is consolidate human jobs. For example, if you have a staff of 10 and three of the people can be completely eliminated with AI, the other seven may have their roles adjusted. Maybe a third of their job can be done by AI. You get rid of those three, and you take the other seven and consolidate that group down to three, with each person doing multiple jobs, because AI can help and enable that. Either way, the workforce will shrink.

So the point is, there may not be much you can do about it today, but you do have to have some kind of a plan for how you're going to live with the reality of artificial intelligence in the workforce.

A couple of things you can do:

Number one, learn how to run and operate AI agents because somebody’s going to have to run these. The boss, the CEO, the general manager is probably not going to be hands-on running the AI day to day. Even many tech people in IT departments don't know how to run AI. And even if they did, they're not in the same mindset as management, as creative or project management. They’re more tech-oriented, more focused on tedious work.

So, if you take it upon yourself to learn how to run AI artificial intelligence agents, when the boss starts to mix those in, you might have a unique opportunity to be highly valued and needed—especially if they are going to downsize a department you’re in.

The other thing you can do is, as you're learning how to run AI, figure out how to use it to do a side hustle where you don't have to spend that much time. There was an article last week that said within the next five years, there will be the first artificial intelligence single-employee company that does a billion dollars—not a million, but a billion. There are already AI companies that do a million dollars in sales; a billion is the next threshold. So you don’t need a billion or even a million. If you can find an AI-type agent job that works for you and makes $50,000, $60,000, or $70,000 a year, that’s like a free job for doing nothing.

Third, you can figure out how to use artificial intelligence to upgrade your lifestyle—even if it’s not making you money. If you can make it improve the efficiency of your life, then you may not need as much of a job. You don't need as much income because your life is handled for you.

Either way, there may be other examples too. Start to plan for the artificial intelligence revolution.

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