I have admitted this before, but I will say it again. This last month has been spent building out the infrastructure of AI and incorporating it into my business. One of the things I did was make a business coach module. It has been insanely helpful. Now it took a bit of work to get it to where I wanted, and I did run a lot of it off of its suggestion but it nailed those. One of its prime directives is to avoid hustle culture. I asked it if it was because I mentioned Karl Barth that one time and it knew I would dislike the prosperity gospel. It said that was not the reason but a final clue.
That is the things about these AI’s. The more you use them and the better you use them the better they get. They’re already at a point where if they are intelligently set up you won’t be able to tell when an email is AI written and when it is human written. It can do short bursts very well right now. Which makes a business coach module almost perfect. It is a sentence or a paragraph at a time.
Think about that for a second. How many online business coaches are out there that are already online only? I am sure some of those will be the ones that use AI in a questionable manner. Setting up an AI avatar to be on their Zoom calls after an AI agent schedules and books clients all while charging $600 a session or something like that. But why would a consumer use that coach when they could use their own AI module?
That is the first wave of businesses that AI will damage. Business coaches, online counseling services, and other talk first online businesses. Things like remote personal trainers. You can pay someone a large sum of money every week or you can save all that money and make an AI module that gets close. Right now, you can go shopping, upload a picture of yourself, upload a picture of a piece of clothing you want to buy, and ask how would I look in this or show me in this at a wedding, on a hike, at the office and decide if you want to buy it. In other words personal shoppers are done.
It won’t be in that wave, but perhaps simultaneously the amount of job opportunities available to people will begin to shrink. All arguments will flare up, governments will be slow to react, and there will be a real human cost. It isn’t going to be fun or pretty, and at this point I don’t want to think any further on it.
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