AI & Our Kids’ Future: PART 1

The Job-Taking Elephant in the Room

Let’s rip the band-aid off.

AI isn’t just changing jobs.
It’s taking them. Quietly. Quickly. Relentlessly.

Not all of these lost roles make headlines, but behind every one is a person facing a new reality. And I don't care what glossy spin you've been fed—this is happening.

As mums, creatives, and small business owners, we’re already feeling the tremors.
But it’s not just about us. It’s about the world our kids are stepping into.
Bots have quietly slipped into roles we thought were safe—admin tasks, content creation, even engineering gigs.
It’s happening faster than we can say “new normal.”

📊 The Numbers Don’t Lie

• By 2025, an estimated 14 million jobs will be displaced globally.
• In the Asia-Pacific region, 6.3 million roles have already vanished.
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Looking ahead, the World Economic Forum predicts another 92 million jobs could disappear by 2030—even as we scramble to invent new ones that don’t yet exist.
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And it’s not just call centres and content writers.
It’s HR teams. Admins. Designers. Engineers.
Entire layers of people—once considered irreplaceable—being shaved off in the name of “efficiency gains.”

🧠 From Boardrooms to Playrooms

Coming from corporate, I’ve sat in meetings where AI was demanded in every new tool or platform. Not because we knew what we wanted it to do—but because we couldn’t afford not to have it.

Now, I’m a mum watching my kids dream about what they’ll be “when they grow up,” and all I can think is:

• Will that job still exist?
• Will they be working alongside humans or bots?
• Will they need a university degree… or just know how to write a really clever prompt?

This isn’t fear-mongering. It’s future planning.

⚖️ The Balance Is Off

Tech innovation is racing ahead.
Social responsibility? Not so much.

We need to start asking the hard questions:

• Where does this end?
• Where should it end?
• What kind of work world do we want for our kids?

This series is my way of saying the quiet part out loud.
Let’s talk about it. Let’s get loud about it. Let’s plan forward.

💬 Join the Conversation

I’d love to hear your thoughts:

• Do you think your job is safe from AI?
• Would your kids’ dream jobs survive a robot apocalypse?

Drop a comment below or follow the series on LinkedIn.
Next week: What Happens When the Art Is Made, But the Artist Is Gone?

Thanks for reading!

Gill T

🤖 P.S. About Those Images...

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