I'm not going to terrorise you with doom-charts off Facebook. I'm also not going to pat you on the head with "don't worry, AI will only ever help." Both of those are cop-outs. You deserve the straight version.
Here's the tattoo-chair truth: loads of my clients in their forties — sharp people, running real businesses — have never once opened ChatGPT. But their work still runs on email, bookings, spreadsheets, compliance. And that's the thing to understand about exposure: it was never about "people who failed IT at school." It's about work shaped like language and routine decisions on a screen. Plenty of clever, capable people are squarely in that bracket and don't know it yet.
The biggest names in tech and business are spending hundreds of billions precisely because they expect AI and robotics to reshape work — including the jobs done behind a keyboard all day. And some of it is already turning up in the hiring data, not just on keynote slides.
So read this one properly. It leans on named sources, not vibes. Your future self will be glad you did.
Continue when you're ready.