Will AI take our jobs ?

There’s a lot of talk about AI taking over jobs, but honestly, I don’t see it happening that way.

AI is a program- it’s something we teach, something we shape. It mirrors us. When I use AI, it’s reflecting my opinions, my ideas, my thinking.
I use it as a tool to help me brainstorm, sort through the chaos of my thoughts, and bring structure to the thousand ideas firing in my brain.
AI doesn’t actually give me new ideas; it just helps me organise and choose the best ones that are already in my head.

For me, it’s also an amazing teaching tool. I use it to check if my thinking is on track or to get guidance when I need clarity. Sometimes I’ll ask AI if my opinion or understanding of something is correct, and it will explain things in a way that helps me see if I’m getting it right.
That’s what makes it useful- it helps me learn, but it doesn’t replace my own judgement.

I try to use AI as little as possible, for example – to generate finished articles or images because there’s always a ton of editing that needs to happen afterwards. AI is a great helper, but it’s only as good as the person using it.
You can see this on social media- people using tools like Midjourney or ChatGPT create incredible things, but the real magic happens when someone behind the screen already has vision, creativity, and skill. They know how to write a great prompt and how to turn an idea into something alive.

Give those same tools to someone without creative drive or vision, and the result is usually disappointing- and then they’ll say “AI isn’t that great.”
But that’s exactly the point. AI doesn’t make you a genius. It reflects what you bring to it.

AI is only as good as the person behind it.

That’s why I don’t think AI will replace certain roles or professions. It can only amplify what’s already there; it can’t invent talent, creativity, or intuition.

Honestly, my dream is that AI will be used the way computers were used in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The crew still had to be skilled and educated- computers were there to help them brainstorm, run analyses, or bring ideas to life, not to do the thinking for them.

That’s how I use AI now, and that’s the future I hope for:
Not a world where computers replace us, but one where they help us think, create, and solve problems even better.