I recently read an article by Belita Clark in the Financial Times titled “Can a day pass without talking about artificial intelligence?” It made me realize that we indeed have not stopped talking about AI for a long time. Not a day goes by without someone making a positive or negative statement about AI, or a breakthrough related to AI, or AI news topping headlines. This is not surprising, as what we are witnessing today with AI is even bigger than the internet boom in the 1990s. Everyone wants to ride the wave and take the biggest piece of the cake! We might even witness wars between tech giants soon because of AI. Elon Musk announced his intention to take legal action due to Apple’s bias towards ChatGPT and its promotion in the App Store.

For Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (the developer of ChatGPT), and Tim Cook, CEO of Apple (the largest company in the world), they are confident about their jobs in the face of AI. But what about the rest of the world?

AI today threatens many jobs; it can be a personal assistant and worker in any company. AI can be an accountant, marketer, lawyer, or even a doctor analyzing symptoms and diagnosing diseases! AI has even started to take jobs from computer science graduates!

So far, most jobs are at risk from AI, but there are exceptions. John Burn-Murdoch from the Financial Times says AI still struggles with multitasking, making it a greater threat to jobs relying on single tasks like programming, and less so for jobs requiring multitasking like management and secretarial work.

In my opinion, arts are among the jobs not currently at significant risk from AI. Yes, AI can write articles, make films, songs, and images, but how good are these productions compared to human creations? Can AI write an article that “haunts the reader” as writer Ta-Nehisi Coates says and shakes their being? Can AI write an exceptional story that makes us cry and dizzy with its complex and unexpected plot? Can AI write the unexpected, or is it limited to what it has been taught and “expected”?

Humans are known for rising no matter what and producing the unexpected. AI was once the unexpected fruit of humans, and humans will never stop doing or producing the unexpected in any field, whether in arts or other professions and jobs. AI will never surpass humans in inventing the unexpected.