You are going to be replaced by IA
We live in a constant technological revolution. Every so often a new technology emerges with force, apparently destined to change the world as we know it. A few years ago it was the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, or 5G, to name just a few. Today, just as 2025 has begun, all the spotlights point toward Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The expectations over AI are enormous, reflected in thousands of investors eager to put their money in the next unicorn that reports 3-digit growth rates. Just take into consideration Nvidia's share price during the past 2024.
“The chipmaker's market value increased by over $2 trillion last year, reaching $3.28 trillion at the close of 2024, making it the second-most valuable listed company in the world. Its market value was $1.2 trillion at the end of 2023.”
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AI is not only changing the present, it is already changing the society of the future through new ways of learning. In the educational world, teachers have been forced to update the old rules on completing tasks, such as “you cannot copy and paste from Wikipedia” or the already archaic “only handwritten work is accepted” with the new “it cannot be generated by AI”. The question is how teachers detect an AI-generated text. Indeed! Another AI is responsible for recognizing the artificial percentage of the composition and another AI is responsible for humanizing the content. The current generation of students is digital natives, they acquire knowledge from electronic sources for the most part, so they have adopted tools such as chatGPT quite naturally. Instead of consulting and understanding to prepare a paper, they ask the AI to generate it in seconds. This saves effort but does not generate learning; children must know how to find sources and discern which information is relevant while developing the ability to summarize, filter, and cite appropriately. Generating an essay automatically with chatGPT may be very fast but does not generate benefits for the student. It is the same principle by which weights are not lifted with forklifts in gyms.
Another added problem is the knowledge bases used by the AI to offer its results. According to UNESCO, in its Global Education Monitoring Report for 2023, technology is not agnostic of ideology:
“90% of online higher education materials come from the European Union or North America. This means, finally, that content production is developed mainly by just two regions, both made up of Western countries.”
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As with every new tool, training, and some new job opportunities emerge everywhere, while many workers fear being replaced by a machine. The press warns of replaced workers and lost jobs::
“Experts predict that AI will make some jobs obsolete…”
As a software developer, I have used AI in various ways for years, such as Grammarly, a tool that corrects spelling and grammar when I write in English and even suggests style corrections. Github Copilot auto-completes and generates parts of source code. Additionally, automatic meeting notes in Teams or email drafts using Gemini or chatGTP, among others. I believe that the more prepared we are and the better we master the tools at our disposal, the more value we add, and the less replaceable we are, whether by people or machines. Do not forget that in a globalized world, we can be replaced by anyone anywhere as much as by AI.
Even in a world as creative as that of writers and content creators, AI is used in the creation of summaries or SEO optimization. There are many repetitive and tedious tasks, such as writing thousands of product descriptions, instruction manuals or, alternative texts for images. These are ideal areas for automation to save time, leaving the final supervision of the created content to humans. However, another very different aspect is literary or journalistic creation. Writers will say that AI cannot achieve the cohesion of style, the subtlety of nuances, the quality in short with which a writer can breathe soul into his texts, but how long this effect will last, in what update will human and artificial creation become indistinguishable remains to be seen.
Undoubtedly, AI is a powerful tool. It has come to stay as a complementary tool or even to replace certain processes, but is the human being replaceable in artistic creation? Art is a human work, in essence, made by people and for people. An artist can use the product of a generative AI to create an image, just as a cartoonist can use a drawing tool to generate his work, but could an artistic expression be purely artificial? Will we ever see movies generated by AI without human supervision? Will we read auto-generated books? I can't imagine a future like that but I don't dare deny the possibility either. I guess if I am ready as a reader or spectator to identify the human hand behind the creation, just like a blade runner detecting replicants. Or will there be an AI capable of anticipating whether humans like something? An interesting future to discover.