The AI Pocket Book

5 How AI will affect jobs and how to stay ahead

This chapter covers

• The qualities that will help protect jobs from being replaced by AI
• How software engineers can future-proof their jobs
• How AI can generate new opportunities for software engineers
• Discussing the effects of AI on the economy and whether it could prolong unemployment and misery

Because generative AI can write code, many software engineers—and aspiring ones—have become worried that their careers might be in danger. NVIDIA’s CEO argued it’s no longer necessary to encourage young people to learn how to code. “In fact, it’s almost exactly the opposite,” he said. “It is our job to create computing technologies that nobody has to program and that the programming language is human: ...