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Dear EverMore: Will AI take my job?

  • Mar 11
  • 3 min read

Updated: Mar 24

Welcome back to Dear EverMore! In episodes 11 and 12, Scott, Courtney, and I talk about AI — especially around the fear of how this will impact the future of work and if AI will really take our jobs.


We hear this fear a lot in our social networks, and it’s a real one. However, we think AI is a great tool to make our work better so we have more time to be creative and come up with ideas, but will not replace the humans behind this work.


Robot in flowers
Image by Aman Pal on Unsplash 

This is a multi-part conversation — below we break this down into 2 parts:



Part 1: will AI really take my job?


  • What AI is genuinely good at today — pattern recognition, synthesizing or compressing information, and being a thought partner. Think of AI like a bicycle: it doesn’t replace your legs, but it can help you get there faster.

  • Where people are overestimating AI — it can’t produce original insight, handle long-term reasoning, provide accountability, make ethical judgments, or offer contextual empathy. AI recombines what already exists; it can’t create something truly novel.

  • The creativity concern — if electricity went out tomorrow and we started over, we’d still have creative thinkers, but AI wouldn’t be able to create anything from the ether. AI should remove tedious tasks so people can be more creative, and we believe the extra time should go back to you for thinking time, not be repurposed for more work in the antiquated 9-to-5.

  • The layoff mistake — we’ve seen companies lay off workers expecting AI to replace them. However, Salesforce recently admitted they regretted their layoffs due to negative customer experiences. There’s a mismatch: people want AI to better their work and experiences, not replace the human element.

  • AI amplifying bias — we’re concerned about how AI will amplify the bias in our data: in the responses it gives that could shape worldviews, in decision-making tools, and in how it engages with people. When bad decision-making from leaders and work systems is the foundation, building AI on top of it only makes it worse.





Part 2: how can I use AI to build the career I want?


  • How to build critical thinking and comfortability with friction — knowing how to prompt AI, questioning the results you’re getting, and letting it pause will help immensely with critical thinking. We also recommend getting out of your house, your comfort zone more, and letting yourself be bored. Synchronicity won’t find you if you’re staying in the same circles. Consider joining a book club or going to community events to engage with people you don’t know.

  • How we're doing this differently in EverMore — we're focused on reflection, taking action outside of the tool, and helping you know yourself better. Unlike other tools (like ChatGPT) where they want to keep your attention, our incentive is to give you value and results — solving problems with you, not having you doom spiral into the platform.

  • The future of engineering — in the past, engineering teams would have a product owner, several engineers, and 1-2 testers working on a single product. In the future, you might have 5 product owners spinning up massive updates, but only 1-2 engineers focused on architecture and design. AI is changing the structure of how work gets done.

  • How this could lead to more entrepreneurs — we believe there will be more people building businesses with AI supporting the accounting, coding, testing, and thought partnership to build something from the ground up. This is where EverMore can come in — helping you focus on your why and how it relates to your North Star, so you can harness AI to build the career (or company) you actually want.





Don't miss all our future conversations around the future of work, career stories, and career advice for questions from our community at Dear EverMore.


xoxo,

Kelsey


p.s. have a tough career situation and need some advice? We'd love to answer this for you on the pod! You can submit it anonymously here.



Kelsey Peterson is the cofounder of EverMore, the career companion tool for owning + telling your career story. She's a former People + Culture leader at early-stage startups and focuses on authenticity at both work and creatively. She is also a singer-songwriter based in Austin, TX. You can find her on LinkedIn, Instagram, and as the cohost of the Dear Evermore podcast. 

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