As AI advances, job security is questioned, with occupations like gardening appearing safe yet under threat from automation technologies. Differentiating between jobs and tasks is crucial; while automation can perform specific tasks, many jobs consist of multiple interconnected tasks. This transformation raises concerns about how AI will reshape job roles, echoing historical examples like the Luddite protests. The outcomes depend on the type of technology and its implications for various professions. Automation in accounting serves as a contrasting case, demonstrating both job transformations and adaptations in professional roles.
Generative AI may be new but these questions are not. They run all the way back to the Luddite protests of the early 1800s, when highly skilled textile workers saw machines doing the hardest parts of their job, allowing them to be replaced by low-paid labourers with far less expertise.
Different AI systems could well help with most of these tasks, although the likely outcome is not that the job of gardener disappears, but that it changes shape.
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