Is AI about to steal your job?

人工智能即将窃取你的工作吗?

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2025-06-05

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Should we believe the warning that AI is about to upend the jobs market? Chris Stokel-Walker reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today is the AI revolution about to take your job.

  • So I recently met this guy who works as a translator.

  • And I can't say too much here, but lately,

  • just to save time, he's been employing the services of ChatGPT.

  • He gets his stuff translated and sends it to his colleague who's a proofreader who edits it and sends it back.

  • And he noticed in one of those emails a strange question at the end.

  • Does this read more clearly now or would you like further refinements?

  • And that's when he realised his job,

  • his colleague's job, were already being partly done by AI.

  • Thing is, bosses have realised this too,

  • that AI can be an incredible tool to make their workers more productive.

  • Or it could just replace that worker.

  • In the past,

  • the theory has gone that industrial revolutions like this one take away lots of jobs,

  • but they create more jobs than they destroy.

  • But over the past few days,

  • the CEO of one major AI company has been doing the rounds with a warning.

  • One, big job losses to AI are coming imminently.

  • And two, this industrial revolution, it's not going to be like the others.