Will ChatGPT and AI Replace Us?

Should you be worried about your job?

Steve Glaveski
3 min readDec 8, 2022

Should you be worried about ChatGPT and AI?

In the past few months we’ve seen the emergence of several breakthrough AI systems.

First, DALL-E created unique artwork and digital images for us based on short natural language prompts.

Second, Jukebox made use of neural nets to generate music, including singing, in a variety of genres and artist styles.

And now, ChatGPT is answering our questions, writing our articles, and giving us advice.

It’s doing a damn fine job of it too and will only get more sophisticated with time.

For decades now, technophiles have tried to allay our AI job displacement concerns.

“Technology has always created more jobs than it destroys.”

“AI will free people up to work on less rudimentary and more interesting work.”

“Human beings were meant to be creative, and that is one thing AI won’t be able to do.”

But as we witness the rapid emergence of generative-AI models, it’s hard to stand by these claims.

Since launching a week ago, ChatGPT has attracted over one million users, and unlike crypto before it, it has seen the…

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Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.