The expert says that workers can use AI capabilities to move forward and open up new opportunities
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More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus coined the phrase, “Change is the only constant.” What you see has remained true since his death, but now the change is happening even faster, especially thanks to artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) technologies such as ChatGPT or Claude. And that makes many workers more anxious than usual. But there is also good news for people who are willing to learn.
“Change is always stressful,” Liz Bentley, a workplace and career consultant at Liz Bentley Associates in New York, told FOX Business. Britain’s Industrial Revolution in the 1700s was pressing again. New industries put people out of work, but new jobs were created. “At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people did not know that there would be new jobs,” he said. We now know the inventions of the 1700s, including steam locomotives and the weaving machine, brought prosperity to the UK and other economies.
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Gen-AI is driving change to a new level. “It’s coming fast and furious,” Bentley said. “There are many things that AI can usurp.” That makes workers worry about new ways. People don’t know what changes are going to happen at work. “There’s a lack of predictability,” he said. Gen-AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that creates content rather than just analyzing data.
A few years ago, job losses were often attributed to employee performance. Now often AI is taking away the work. Data from Challenger, Gray and Christmas finds Gen-AI directly involved in 54,000 layoffs by 2025. The idea was to allow AI to handle repetitive tasks, such as data collection. It’s no surprise that nearly 30% of workers fear losing their jobs as AI takes over, according to Bentley.
Job loss can sound very scary to many people. But the truth is that Gen-AI is here to stay, and there are plenty of reasons to stop worrying.
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First, investors have put a lot of money into making AI work. Private equity and business investment in the US reached $109 billion. Last year, the same investors plowed in another 194 billion dollars. Simply put, these investors are betting big on the future of AI, and they wouldn’t do so unless they thought there was a solid future for it.
In the US, 28.3% of the working-age population uses artificial intelligence, or about three in 10 workers in the second half of 2025, according to Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute. The US was well ahead of the global consumption average of 16.3% during the same period.
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While AI has so far led to layoffs, it has also created many new jobs that most of us would never dream of. Last year, nearly 280,000 new jobs in Gen-AI were created for humans, according to Electro IQ Job Creation Stats. Some of those jobs were for people involved in AI training, data analysis and Gen-AI ethicists.
Another advantage is that people working with AI agents are more productive. The amount of work people do with Gen-AI has changed dramatically, Bentley said. But more importantly, workers are now more productive. That’s especially beneficial for people who don’t have advanced degrees or experience, he says.
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The most important strategy to succeed in these new roles seems to be a willingness to learn. “Those opportunities will involve people who will embrace the new technology,” said Jed Ellerbroek, portfolio manager at Argent Capital in St. Louis. Louis, Missouri, told FOX Business. “And AI can make you more creative.”
In part, that intelligence survives because people who work with AI need to think. Significantly, that means critical thinking, including questioning and challenging perceived intelligence. “It takes someone,” Ellerbroek said.
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Ellerbroek says the best way to start is to learn how to use free Gen-AI agents, such as the basic version of ChatGPT. With that basic knowledge, moving to the paid version will be easy. “It’s much better,” he says. “You need to double-check what you’re putting out.”
