Opinion: The AI robots are coming for our jobs, especially mine – and their column-writing skills ain’t bad!

Get Watchdog news delivered free to your email inbox! Sign up for free email updates from The Watchdog. You’ll be notified whenever we publish our latest award-winning investigative reporting, John Boyle’s Answer Man and Opinion columns, Tom Fiedler’s Democracy Watch, and more! Sign me up for free news alerts! As if life weren’t depressing enough these days, The Washington Post had a real pick-me-up of an article last week that about made me throw in the towel — to the robots. “See which jobs are most threatened by AI and who may be able to adapt” is a cool interactive piece in which you can view all types of jobs and professions — and how likely your career is to go down the drain at the behest of artificial intelligence. Web designers and secretaries, you had a nice run. Janitors, you’re looking good.  Other workers who probably should be freshening up their resumes to become custodians include public relations specialists, customer service reps, retail sales persons and yes, writers and authors. For “news analysts, reporters and journalists,” the vulnerability was “high.” The article notes that “researchers at GovAI, which studies technology policy, and the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, used a novel approach to estimate which workers may be most and least able to adapt to AI.” “They concluded that many people most at risk if AI transforms work are also the best placed to find new jobs,” the authors continued. “But history shows that economists and rese...