{"id":363080,"date":"2025-11-12T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=363080"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:16:08","slug":"ai-will-not-cause-a-jobs-apocalypse-but-it-will-unleash-jobs-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/ai-will-not-cause-a-jobs-apocalypse-but-it-will-unleash-jobs-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Will Not Cause a Jobs Apocalypse, but It Will Unleash Jobs Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  • Gartner Says Leaders Must Create Four Scenarios for Human-AI Collaboration at Work<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n
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    • AI to Create More Jobs Than It Eliminates; Over 32 Million Jobs Will Be Transformed Each Year<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
    • AI-First Only Succeeds When It Is People-First<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n
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      The pervasive use of\u00a0AI\u00a0is forcing business and IT leaders to rethink their workforce. Executive leaders must develop four scenarios where human and AI can collaborate effectively, said Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

      AI will indelibly alter how human workers perform work in the future, however there will not be a jobs apocalypse. Instead, starting in 2028-2029, there will be jobs chaos created by the need to reconfigure, redesign, splinter and fuse over 32 million jobs each year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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      Speaking at\u00a0Gartner IT Symposium\/Xpo\u00a0in Barcelona,\u00a0Helen Poitevin, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, said<\/strong> \u201cEvery day 150,000 jobs will evolve through upskilling, while 70,000 more jobs will need to be rewritten, reworked, and redesigned. Executive leaders must plan their AI investments and goals to anticipate and manage these changes. They need to decide on their destination \u2014whether to pursue human-first designs that emphasize supporting people in their work, or to select AI-first designs that aim to maximize efficiency by relying on\u00a0AI to perform tasks.\u201dThe goal is not a worker-free enterprise, but a work-redefined enterprise: adaptive, creative, and profoundly human at its core. Because being \u201cAI-first\u201d only succeeds when it is, above all, people-first. \u201cThe next era of enterprise performance will not hinge on the quantity of people employed, but on the quality of collaboration between humans and AI,\u201d said Poitevin.<\/p>\n

      Gartner presented four scenarios illustrating how both human-first and AI-first strategies could shape the impact of AI on jobs and organizations (see Figure 1).<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

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      Figure 1: Four Scenarios of AI\u2019s Ripple Effect on Jobs and Organizations<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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      Source: Gartner (November 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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      1. Fewer workers doing the work AI can\u2019t:<\/strong>\u00a0Humans want AI to do the work, and work is the same (but with AI). Humans want AI to do the work, yet work is not significantly transformed. People must fill in the gaps left where AI is not able to do certain tasks effectively. Higher degrees of automation lead to the need for fewer workers. This scenario is used in customer service where customer service employees are left to take on the work that AI could not accomplish.<\/li>\n
      2. Fewer to no workers running an AI-first enterprise (or part of one):<\/strong>\u00a0Humans want AI to do the work, and work is transformed with fewer workers than before. This represents autonomous business.<\/li>\n
      3. Many busy workers using AI to work better and do more:<\/strong>\u00a0Humans want to do the work with AI, and work is the same (but with AI). This is what everyday AI looks like.<\/li>\n
      4. Many innovative workers combining with AI to surpass the frontiers of knowledge:<\/strong>\u00a0Humans want to do the work with AI and work is transformed. It allows humans to go after bigger and more challenging questions to find solutions. This scenario could apply to personalized medicine \u2014 it can only happen if humans connect different fields, share information, and expand their understanding of health and well-being.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \u201cNo matter which scenario executive leaders pursue, they must be ready to support all four,\u201d said Poitevin. \u201cThe ripple effects of AI will make each scenario a reality. Leaders need to invest in both types of designs but emphasize on what is possible with AI, embracing an abundance mindset \u2013 a mindset whereby AI helps leaders to tackle today and tomorrow\u2019s challenges in new\u00a0ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Gartner Says Leaders Must Create Four Scenarios for Human-AI Collaboration at Work AI to Create More Jobs Than It Eliminates; Over 32 Million Jobs Will Be Transformed Each Year AI-First Only Succeeds When It Is People-First The pervasive use of\u00a0AI\u00a0is forcing business and IT leaders to rethink their workforce. Executive leaders must develop four scenarios […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27765,4],"tags":[37612],"class_list":{"0":"post-363080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence-news","8":"category-technology","9":"tag-four-scenarios-of-ais-ripple-effect-on-jobs-and-organizations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363082,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363080\/revisions\/363082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}