I’ve been wondering for a bit now what jobs integrated with AI will look like in the near future. I have a pretty limited frame of reference due to my geography and my workplace. If I had to speculate though on what the wages will be for a worker whose job it is to wield AI tools, I’d wager it’d be more than a person not wielding it, that probably should be, but less than someone technical who also isn’t using it. If I had to guess the higher paid person will be the one whose job could be enhanced with AI, but is in a role you wouldn’t want an AI agent to be integrated in.

In the information technology realm (my field) I think that will be infrastructure roles, where a deep understanding of fundamentals are necessary. I think these will also be PR types of jobs where the human element of communication really matters, even if AI aided in the message. (Here is how not to do it) It will also be jobs where being an effective communicator in person or live is important (again, even if AI helped guide a script).

So what it comes down to in deciding how valuable a job might be is how important it is for a task to be completed with 100% accuracy or managing human relationships. The more those two things are at stake, the better chance a person will have at not having that position lost to AI or someone getting paid less to use AI. We'll see how right I am in the future.