As an early career executive assistant, I’m watching the world of admin/ops work rapidly change—currently, for the better due to increased efficiency—with AI tool adoption. I want to avoid wasting time learning skills or gaining experience in a role that will become obsolete in the near to medium term future. Does 80K Hours have advice for strategically thinking about upskilling, specializing, and/or pivoting to alternate career paths? Do you foresee roles like personal assistants remaining relevant and impactful (if at high-impact organizations)?
I’m no longer on the team but my hot take here is that a good bet is just going to be trying really hard to work out which tools you can use to accelerate/automate/improve your work. This interview with Riley Goodside might be interesting to listen to, not only for tips on how to get more out of AI tools, but also to hear about how the work he does in prompting those tools has rapidly changed, but that he’s stayed on the frontier because the things he learned have transferred.
As an early career executive assistant, I’m watching the world of admin/ops work rapidly change—currently, for the better due to increased efficiency—with AI tool adoption. I want to avoid wasting time learning skills or gaining experience in a role that will become obsolete in the near to medium term future. Does 80K Hours have advice for strategically thinking about upskilling, specializing, and/or pivoting to alternate career paths? Do you foresee roles like personal assistants remaining relevant and impactful (if at high-impact organizations)?
I’m no longer on the team but my hot take here is that a good bet is just going to be trying really hard to work out which tools you can use to accelerate/automate/improve your work. This interview with Riley Goodside might be interesting to listen to, not only for tips on how to get more out of AI tools, but also to hear about how the work he does in prompting those tools has rapidly changed, but that he’s stayed on the frontier because the things he learned have transferred.
This is a really interesting question! Unfortunately, it was posted a little too late for me to run it by the team to answer. Hopefully other people interested in this topic can weigh in here. This 80k podcast episode might be relevant? https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/michael-webb-ai-jobs-labour-market/