Job Security: Optimised for Our Own Obsolescence? | AI, Automation, Future of Work & Job Displacement

<p>It promised to make us more productive, more employable, and more economically secure. But as AI begins replacing not just tasks but entire professional roles - including ones that took many years to reach - is technology making job security itself an obsolete concept?</p><p>Welcome to Ruined By The Internet? - the show where we examine how technology is shaping modern life - whether we want it to or not.</p><p>Follow or subscribe to never miss the next investigation. <a href="https://www.ruinedbytheinternet.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ruinedbytheinternet.com/</a></p><p>We’re joined by Nick Jain, a Harvard-trained former private equity investor, and co-founder of Eagle Rock CFO, who builds systems to replace the leadership that used to require a senior executive, giving him a front row seat to a transformation that's rapidly coming for every industry, whether they're ready or not. And he's under no illusions about what that could mean for the rest of us.</p><p>In this episode we investigate how AI is displacing not just entry-level roles but senior professional positions that people spent careers building toward, examine the J curve of productivity, and why the short-term pain of technology adoption is being distributed so unevenly.</p><p>We also explore the gap between AI's actual capabilities and the hype being sold to businesses and workers, and ask whether Universal Basic Income is a genuine safety net for what's coming - or a way of making worker displacement politically acceptable.</p><p>(00:00) The gap between what technology promised and what it's actually delivering</p><p>(03:09) The J curve of productivity: why things get worse before they get better</p><p>(05:57) AI and job displacement: which roles are most exposed and why</p><p>(08:52) Optimism versus pessimism about the future of work: what the evidence actually supports</p><p>(12:03) The role of creativity in surviving an AI-driven workforce</p><p>(14:51) Where the real opportunities for growth are, and which industries face the hardest road</p><p>(18:10) Hollywood as a case study in what AI disruption looks like in practice</p><p>(21:01) AI washing: separating genuine capability from marketing noise</p><p>(23:06) What AI can actually do in the workforce right now versus what we're told it can do</p><p>(30:11) The human cost of job displacement beyond the economic argument</p><p>(37:24) Universal Basic Income as a response to automation: solution or stickin