3 questions you must ask about AI

(Thanks to everyone for their condolences and warm wishes yesterday).

I went to a talk by a VC investor in Dublin last week. He asked a room of 70+ people, wondering about AI, these three questions:

1. What types of jobs are most likely to be exposed by AI?

​Before I set up my media business, I wrote content and web copy for small Irish companies. The work was sporadic, but I scratched together a reasonable living. The hardest part of the job was finding clients, not tech.

After I set up my business, I hired writers to produce content for my content websites, paying them between 6 and 20 cents per word. The hardest part of the job was managing a budget.

Unless you’ve got super copywriting chops, content writing is a tough gig to break into now. Barring specialized content, like legal or health articles, a content writer charging per word has to compete with ChatGPT or Claude. Not only that, but they have to convince a client why they should hire them or an AI agent.

2. What types of industries are most likely to be disrupted by AI?