These Jobs Won’t Survive AI — Are You Ready?

AI isn't coming — it’s already here, and it’s after the most repetitive jobs. Here’s how to get ahead before it gets you.

🔍 In This Issue:

  • What types of jobs AI is already replacing

  • How small businesses can adapt instead of panic

  • Real story: AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton sounds the alarm

  • AI tool of the week to future-proof your operations

  • ChatGPT prompt to streamline one repetitive task today

⚡️ 1-Minute Breakdown:

AI doesn’t “steal” jobs — it replaces tasks. If your team spends hours doing things that follow a pattern (like data entry, customer replies, or scheduling), AI can do it faster, cheaper, and 24/7. The businesses that win? They're the ones that embrace AI as a team upgrade — not a threat.

🧰 Main Story: The Jobs AI Is Replacing — And What You Should Do About It

Let’s be real: AI is coming for some jobs.

But this isn’t the “robots take over everything” fearmongering. This is real, practical disruption — and small business owners need to get smart, fast.

🔄 The Jobs Most at Risk:

According to Geoffrey Hinton — the “Godfather of AI” — the first to go are:

  • Paralegals

  • Personal Assistants

  • Telemarketers

  • Customer Support Reps

  • Junior-level Designers & Writers

These jobs involve repeatable decisions or templated outputs — the perfect fuel for AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney.

🔧 What You Can Do Instead:

1. Audit Your Business Tasks
Make a list of everything you or your team does weekly. Circle anything that’s:

  • Copy/paste

  • Data processing

  • Scheduling or responding to the same question 20x

That’s your automation goldmine.

2. Implement One AI Tool This Week
You don’t need to automate everything. Just pick one recurring task and delegate it to AI. (We’ve got a tool below to help.)

3. Reskill Your Team (Or Yourself)
Let AI handle the grunt work. Use that freed-up time to get strategic — learning sales, branding, analytics, or management.

4. Own the Transition
Tell your team (or just remind yourself): AI isn’t here to replace us — it’s here to promote us if we learn how to use it.

🛠 AI Tool of the Week: Trello + AI Assist

What It Does:
Combines simple project management with AI-generated checklists, summaries, and scheduling.

Why It’s Great for SMBs:
It keeps your team organized and uses AI to suggest next steps, prioritize tasks, and even write updates. Think: VA meets project manager.

🧠 Try it here

💬 ChatGPT Prompt of the Week:

“Act as a business assistant. Every Monday, I want a summary of all client messages from the past week and a list of tasks I need to follow up on. Use bullet points and make it concise.”

📎 Copy-paste this into ChatGPT every Monday morning. Your inbox and brain will thank you.

📖 Real Story: Geoffrey Hinton Warns of AI Job Losses — And He’s Not Guessing

Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering AI scientist who helped develop modern neural networks, just left Google to speak freely about the risks of AI.

In an interview with Entrepreneur, he warned:

“Jobs that are very routine and predictable are going to go… People need to learn how to adapt. Fast.”

✅ Call to Action:

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