Chris Johns

on our Substack site the other day from somebody looking for career advice in the nicest, most possible, polite way.

This particular individual, who shall remain nameless, was thinking of changing jobs.

He works in the financial services industry.

He described his current job.

He described the job for which he's been offered and said, which one is going to be more susceptible to AI disruption in the future?

And I don't know whether you saw the answer that I gave him, Jim, but the honest answer is twofold that I gave him.

One, I've no idea.

Secondly, I do believe that with those smart glasses and all the other things that we could talk about, every single job in the world is susceptible to AI disruption potentially.

And the real question is, how long is it going to take for your particular job to be disrupted?

It looks like entry level at the moment.

But financial services is certainly an area that I think will be potentially heavily disrupted.

I don't know.

I don't know for sure.

I think the biggest uncertainty is over how long it's going to take, but it's happening.

The latest survey for AI adoption, I think it was Morgan Stanley, the big global investment bank, I'm not sure about that, reckons that AI adoption is running at twice the rate of the early internet adoption, and that was fast.

So it's happening, Jim, and it's happening notwithstanding my incredible forecasting abilities.

I have to say that the biggest part of my answer to this very nice chat was I just don't know.

So I refuse to say stay or go.

I mean, giving career advice is as risky as giving individual investment advice, isn't it, Jim?

Indeed, indeed.