You trust a person to deliver on a promise because they’re incentivized to. If somebody doesn’t do their job, they risk losing their income. If they lose their income, they will feel pain. The incentive creates accountability.

AI doesn’t feel this pain (yet?). While they’re capable of doing many things, one of its few shortcomings is accountability. 

This has an implication for your job: If you want to make sure you’re still adding value to an organization, you want to be accountable and known for it.

Sean Goedecke writes, “In the long run, when almost every engineer has been replaced by LLMs, all companies will still have at least one engineer around to babysit the LLMs and to launder their promises and plans into human-legible commitments.” 

The same is true of every job department. A business leader will need people they trust to be held accountable for what AI does.