Artificial intelligence probably won’t take your job, but someone using it might.
Creative destruction, an economic concept coined by economist Arthur Schumpeter, is when new concepts destroy jobs, such as automobiles replacing horse-drawn carriages or part-time Uber drivers taking the jobs of taxi drivers, or the internet destroying the jobs of travel agents, cable TV, and many local retail stores.
Artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, Grok, or Claude, can help you research but it drastically falls flat when given complex tasks. Moreover, it is often wrong and even hallucinates and fabricates things.
And even if AI does take your job, you can probably find a better one. Self-checkouts can free cashiers to help customers directly, something at which AI and machines often fail.
Machines outperform humans at repetitive tasks that require little brainpower. We should lean into our creative strengths, something that artificial intelligence can't replicate. As people using AI might destroy white-collar office jobs, those people should lean into their skills and creativity.
At current levels of capability, AI agents could perform tasks that occupy 44% of US work hours today, and robots 13%.
— McKinsey Global Institute (@McKinsey_MGI) January 14, 2026
That means more than half of current work hours could be automated with today’s technologies.
But work that draws on social and emotional skills remains… pic.twitter.com/5osyDLPL1k
AI can help you think, but don’t replace your brain with it. The Wall Street Journal outsourced AI to run its vending machine, and reported that it lost hundreds of dollars, gave away a free Playstation and ordered a live fish.
AI isn’t smart. It’s a tool that you should use to work better and faster. And it'll even do terrible things, like convince vulnerable people to kill themselves.
Will AI take your job?
— Sahil Lavingia (@shl) February 10, 2025
If you worked this past weekend, no.
If you only work / think about work during “work hours”, then yes, AI will take your job. You’ve already expressed you don’t really enjoy what you do—and AI will be able to do it faster, cheaper, and with less… https://t.co/nTwCeEElfu
AI is coming for routine jobs. If your work involves repetitive clicking and typing, like data entry or basic QA, those roles will likely be automated in the next few years. #AI #Automation pic.twitter.com/UGhUaSBnq6
— Rodolfo Salazar (@rokensa) January 25, 2026
AI can already do 50% of all white-collar jobs... they will be the first to go. https://t.co/cD54K9OdTb pic.twitter.com/J7vTlCgtjw
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) January 8, 2026
These 2 paragraphs from @dwarkesh_sp are precisely why AI will not replace jobs en masse.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) December 3, 2025
Agents will be incredibly helpful at automating tasks. And those tasks will grow ever larger. But people will coordinate all those tasks coming together to produce real value. pic.twitter.com/U1SqkgNGra
In short, AI can’t replace a human brain. Use AI to complete menial tasks and carve time to use your brain to do things that artificial intelligence can’t. Use it so you can spend more time with the people and things you love.