For clues about how AI will change your job, The New York Times says look at past technology shifts, not AI hype

The New York Times examines how earlier waves of automation and technological change reshaped which jobs disappeared, which jobs grew, and how long the transition took, as a guide to what AI is likely to do to work now. The piece argues that past shocks, from factory machinery to computers, usually moved slower and created more new kinds of work than the most alarming predictions at the time suggested.

• Instead of reacting to the most dramatic AI jobs headline you see this week, ask which specific tasks in your business AI can already do reliably today, and which it cannot.
• Plan retraining or new roles for your team around the tasks history says tend to survive, judgement, relationships and oversight, rather than assuming whole jobs vanish overnight.

Source: The New York Times. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. The picture is our own graphic. How we source and credit