Stephen Downes

The main value of this article is the division of future work into three types of role (John Storm references from a Mercer report): "(i) Transactional element: routine tasks such as data entry or retrieval, responding to email or enquiries, etc. (ii) Relational element: the servicing, communicating, supervising and/or guiding other people. (iii) Expertise element: the value add that you bring to a role due to your own personal experiences." The arrival of AI eliminates the first and augments the latter two, resulting in greater productivity. There are some writing errors, but I still wondered whether 'John Storm' is a real person, since the article provides no author URL, so I searched and concluded the author is either "a brilliant scientist who worked in relative seclusion in his mountaintop mansion, his faithful dog Rex as his only companion" or "an experienced entrepreneur with 15 years of international practice in team management and strategic planning." I think that in the future if we don't provide explicit author information, people will assume it was written by AI, no matter what the author's name is.