AI can do your job. But that's not why you will lose your job

Chandrima BanerjeeTNN
May 11, 2026 | 07:17 IST
Illustration: Uday Deb

The long run is too distant. Here’s what AI is doing inside your job right now


How does technology change jobs? It can be understood by seeing what happened to two professions in the US — the typist and the bank teller.

In the 1970s, American offices wanted to make writing more efficient. So, they asked secretaries to stop typing, and moved that work to newly created pools of skilled typists — people whose job was to sit in a part of the office called a word processing centre and just type all day. But when the personal computer arrived, in the 1980s, typing could happen at any desk. And the typist disappeared.
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