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Irreplaceable

The Art of Standing Out in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Pascal Bornet
Wiley, 2024
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As artificial intelligence grows ubiquitous across sectors, many people are rightfully worried about losing their jobs. But, rather than wait helplessly for a future of financial ruin, remember that you have agency, writes AI and automation expert Pascal Bornet. Start taking steps to protect your career and gain vital insights that will help you transform your business and thrive in the Age of AI. Learn how you can become an irreplaceable leader by embracing “compassion, wisdom, and ethics,” while making adaptability a core capacity of your business.

Summary

Avoid AI-related obsolescence by becoming more adaptive and flexible.

While you may be focused on how to avoid losing your job as AI’s sophistication evolves, you’d be better served by becoming more adaptive and resilient, and developing skills you could leverage in different job roles. Resist the temptation to frame AI in binary terms, as either “good” or “bad.” Much of AI’s impact on your life hinges on the relationship you develop with it, its programming, and the quality of its data. It’s time to stop thinking of AI as being in competition with humans and frame it instead as a valued collaborator.

Many falsely believe that artificial and human intelligence are essentially the same, but this is not the case. AI merely simulates human intelligence. It lacks any true understanding of the subject matter at hand. While AI can appear genuinely creative, its output is more akin to a “magician’s trick” as it generates content using its programming and predictive algorithms For example, when ChatGPT is tasked to write a poem, it does so using a process called “recombination...

About the Author

Pascal Bornet is a keynote speaker on automation and artificial intelligence (AI). He is a former senior executive at McKinsey, as well as an award-winning global AI and automation expert with more than a million followers on social media.

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