The future of work in the era of artificial intelligence

If you’ve been in any office meeting, WhatsApp group, corporate off-site or even a family dinner lately, it’s very likely that you’ve been privy to some discussion on artificial intelligence and how it’s going to change everything. And you must have heard someone say, “AI is going to take all our jobs.”

And then this is usually followed by an afterthought: “Hopefully it will start with my boss.”

Artificial intelligence isn’t new. What’s new is the speed and scale at which it is entering our workplace and our work life. Tasks that once took hours or even days can now be completed in minutes. And because of that, work as we have known it all along is changing – not in a dramatic robot uprising way, but rather quietly ...