How AI Has Already Changed My Job

Today’s internet is full of thoughts about how artificial intelligence will transform work. Every possible prediction has been forecast: AI will take all our jobs. Or maybe just the low-skilled jobs. Or perhaps it’s the creative ones. Wait, maybe it’s coming for anyone who’s built their career typing away on a computer. (Uh-oh.)

The reality is that AI has already had an impact on the way millions of us do our jobs. Eight American workers talked to Bloomberg Businessweek about how their working lives are changing as a result of the technology. There’s a nurse who’s had AI foisted on her in ways she worries endangers patients; an Uber driver sharing the streets with Waymos that don’t need drivers at all; and a teacher learning how AI can cut hours out of his exhausting workweeks.