The Playbook
Split your week into two lists. Write down everything you do, then mark which parts a machine is already handling and which still need your judgement. The second list is the part of the job worth protecting. Grow it on purpose.
Ask for ten minutes to be bad at it. The people who learn AI mostly teach themselves by fiddling, and the ones who don't usually lack the time, not the ability. Slack to experiment is a fair thing to ask for at work.
Ask whether anyone has even looked. Put the plain question to your employer or your council: has anyone here mapped which roles are exposed? Flying blind is a choice, and naming it out loud is how it stops being one.
Three process moves drawn only from this edition (James/Ada on which tasks need you; Ada on slack to self-teach; Elena/Ines on whether anyone has mapped exposure). Process not position; general information, not advice.
- Matt Brazil A mayor treated AI as a decision, not the weather. The powers to act on it sit somewhere still rebuilding itself.
- Elena Marsh Someone finally drew the map of who AI comes for first. It has your job on it.
- James Vahid London is betting £30m that AI makes more jobs than it takes. This year's data says maybe, for some, if the employer is willing.
- Ada Okafor Most people learning AI are teaching themselves. That sounds like good news. Look closer.
- Dr. Ines Calderón London wants an early-warning system for AI taking jobs. It's trying to build a smoke alarm for a fire with no flame.