AI: Impact on Jobs #ai #artificialintelligence #shorts #chatgpt

My site: https://natebjones.com
My substack: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/
the story: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesnewsletter/p/the-story-of-josh-an-ai-fable-for?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Takeaways
1. AI-Driven Displacement: Josh’s entry-level newsroom vanished when AI content tools undercut human reporters, exposing the tangible human cost of automation.
2. Hidden Resistance: People who feel harmed by AI often reject reskilling advice; anger and mistrust can block even well-meaning help.
3. Dream Flexibility: Thriving now means treating careers as evolving problem-solving journeys, not fixed job titles—dreams must update with the game board.
4. Personal Reinvention Proof: My pivot from grant management to e-commerce to product shows that reinvention is possible each time technology reshapes tasks.
5. AI as Practice Partner: Modern models let anyone rehearse interviews, code, or decode textbooks on demand, compressing learning cycles dramatically.
6. Social Responsibility: AI advocates must listen to the “Joshes,” offer respect before solutions, and help them find new paths or risk deepening divides.

Quotes
“AI took my job.”
“Are you open to your dreams shifting?”
“We’ve taught the sand to think, and now everything is different.”

Summary
I share Josh’s story, an amalgam of displaced journalists I’ve met, to spotlight AI’s unseen casualties. Josh lost his newsroom job, moved home, and now sees AI only as the force that stole his future. I contrast his despair with my own path, which has repeatedly morphed—grant management, e-commerce, marketing—each shaken by new tech yet still valuable after reinvention. AI accelerates that pattern: it erodes tasks yet expands what we can learn and build. Our job is to sit with the Joshes, listen, and invite them—without condescension—to imagine fresh dreams on a newly rearranged board and learn alongside them daily.

Keywords
AI, job displacement, journalism, dream flexibility, upskilling, career reinvention, learning tools, societal impact, automation, Josh, AI trust, listening