The essence of the craftsman is the transformation, and is a master at it. It takes something simple and makes it something unique, it takes something ordinary and makes it extraordinary.
The artisan has patience, attention to detail, creates beauty, and emulates the beauty, impressing in every creation of his passion, skill, and wisdom of their craft. Is recursive as it creates from its limitations, as well as from their strengths, and it does so from there, what you found, what you are looking for, what you get or what others discarded. Using what he was taught, what he has learned from his experience, what he has seen, what they remember, what I imagine, what I interpreted, what you believe, what you think, what you dream, what you feel. Inspired by what surrounds them, in what is far, what is not, what it is, what is not, what it was and what it can be, untangling multiple possibilities and seeing what others do not see.
When you work, your creativity flows, because he is willing to give their being, to express their identity and to question it, to reveal its essence, and to do so without beating about the bush, because he is willing to learn, to explore, to innovate, to invent, to try and fail, to grow, to change, to evolve, and even to give up, go back and involucionar.
The result can transform a space, fill it out, give shine and life, infuse it with meaning, color, and emotion, to convey character, identity and value, capture attention, inspire, confront, challenge.
In the end, all craftsman is an artist and every artist is a craftsman.
How could a definition like this be applied to Artificial Intelligence? I would say no. Without wanting how to debate me it is clear that Artificial Intelligence is another thing: Interesting, disturbing, powerful, useful, attractive, but it's another thing.
Why disturbing?
A study[1] conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Harvard, and Vanderbilt reveals that, two years after the launch of ChatGPT (November 2022)near the 39% of american adults (18-64 years) had already used AI generative. In comparison, the The Internet took five years in approximately 20% of adoption, and the PC took three years to reach the same level
According To The Economic Times[2]Bill gates has stated that “artificial intelligence is revolutionizing industries with a potential replacement jobs... but, according to him, developers, energy experts and biologists will continue to be essential, at least for now.”
As I don't want you to think that I am an enemy of Artificial Intelligence, or that I object to its use, I asked ChatGPT to tell me that other people are recognized in the field of technology, apart from Bill Gates, have publicly warned about the potential loss of jobs due to artificial intelligence, or some similar idea. Here are their responses[3]:
In an interview with Time (collection TIME100) in 2023, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said: “There is little doubt that AI will make many jobs disappear, as happens with new technologies, even when you create new ones.”
At an event in Lancaster House (Uk), Elon Musk said: “we're Going to have something that, for the first time, be smarter than the human smarter. It is difficult to say exactly what it is that moment, but there will come a point in which you do not need any work”
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Geoffrey Hinton (father of Deep learning), said: "I Am very concerned that AI will bring many routine jobs."
Without a doubt, the emergence of AI is nothing less than a new industrial revolution, came to stay, and their development is advancing at an exponential rate. So the looks presented (Bill Gates on, that they are but a small sample) do not appear to be science fiction, and are, in truth, not very encouraging. Consequently, the present, and the future that is coming at full speed bring important changes to, significant risks and represent a huge challenge for the society.
To ignore it would be less naive, but a fool, since you have to wonder what people will live when they are no longer necessary for the generation of wealth. And, I would add another question, in what they will invest their time? because the work is not just a way of obtaining a livelihood, but also a means to personal fulfillment, a way to express oneself and a motor to keep the mind active. So that the loss of mass employment could lead to impacts that are very negative in multiple dimensions.
In fact, a recent study conducted by researchers at the MIT Media Lab, led by Nataliya Kosmyna, titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task”, whose existence was validated using Artificial Intelligence[4]concludes that Use ChatGPT to write essays significantly reduces the brain activity related to creativity, memory, and critical thinking. In addition, he says that those who depend solely on the IA retain much less content and produce texts perceived as less deep or genuine. Do you not clearly see a risk in this?
The thing gets even more complicated if we consider it as valid, he said Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google), during an interview on 60 Minutes (CBS) in April 2023[5]“On the one hand I feel that we are not prepared ... the pace at which technology evolves is faster than the social institutions can adapt.” Then, who will be able to defend ourselves?
However, in an interview with Issues in Science and Technology (2023), Fei Fei Li, a Professor at Stanford University and co-director of the Institute AI (Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence) indicated[6]: “The AI will not replace humans, but humans with AI will replace those who do not use”.
I think that Fei Fei Li refers to the AI is just a tool, but one with the potential to change the world is also one that allows you to significantly increase the productivity of the people. So, in my opinion, gave a light on how to address, at least in part, the possible loss of jobs. But clearly leads to a radical change in the way in which we work.
Even so, there is still a problem, since, according to data published in 2023 by the Observatory of Higher Education Policies of the Unesco[7]only 26.9% of the colombian population has completed university education (technical, technological, university, or more). And it should be noted that this figure is far below the average of countries in the OECD where the figure goes up to 40.4%, so that the developing countries are at a clear disadvantage.
These figures are of concern, at least to me, and my concern arises from a basic assumption: it sure is easier to get people who have acquired a higher education full can learn how to use the AI and get to integrate it in their work, to people who do not have education or this is limited to be able to do so. And it is fair to say that the 100% of people who have completed university education to achieve this integration by itself is an overwhelming challenge.
This, of course, represents a challenge for the society and for the education system in particular, because of the need to teach students how to use AI, but with a vision that is very pragmatic, which favors its use as a tool to be more effective, and to reject as a strategy to not do what we should.
Without a doubt, today AI is a differential (for the organizations that have incorporated them into their production processes) but, as with any technological advance in the past, the question arises: when all the adopt what will be the differential?
As I have faith in humanity, and do not think much to the predictions of Bill Gates, at this point I want to bring up the movie “Hidden Talents (2016)” and, within this, the character of Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan, who front the advent of the computer IBM 7090 acquired in 1958 by the NASA, which clearly put in risk his job (and many more), instead of being frightened, he began to learn about its operation, coming to be the first person to make this new technology work to make the calculations of the trajectories of satellites and space travel. Far from losing his job, he created a new work, for her and many other people, your talent, your talent, and leadership were decisive.
So the human factor, that we are and have the potential to be, is what could make the difference when all of the organisations have built the AI to your work. Such a difference, and the chance that people will continue to be relevant, it may be precisely in our ability to do the extraordinary from the ordinary, such as the craftsmen; it could have been in our imagination and ability to dream, to our intuition and creativity, even in our emotions; or in our ability to think, analyze, create and explore to see a variety of options and in the discernment to choose between them. Could be in the ability to connect everyday life to generate new ideas, or daring and the courage to pursue them and bring them out, to take the initiative and use (or don't) cautious advance, as well as in the faith, and the belief that something can be achieved, the strength of will to do so, and in the flexibility to explore multiple ways to do it and the resilience needed to get up and start again when things go wrong. Could be in the way we relate with each other, through empathy, listening, compassion, solidarity, sensitivity, warmth or mood, and the ability that we have to unite around common causes; Or in the way we make decisions even with incomplete information, from different interpretations of reality and multiple points of view, born from the wealth of our subjectivity and the ability to integrate them in various scenarios, some of them logical, evidence-based, other illogical, contraintuitivas, delusional and naïve, based on feelings, emotions, beliefs, intuitions, or whims. Or it could be in the chance to say no, because there is something that contradicts our values, or our ability to react and act in front of unexpected situations. But, on the whole, I think that lies in the possibility of combining all of these capabilities.
It is for this reason that I speak of Intelligence Artisan, I think that what you most need to move forward with a firm step towards the future, of the hand of the AI, including all, leaving no one out, it's what we already have and that is part of our essence. We need to use all of those qualities, abilities, and that drive and that sensitivity that nature gave us, and that character and wisdom that was shaped over millennia and has been transmitted through generations. Is that our wealth as a species and our main hope for the future.
Because where lies the strength of a trial lawyer, and in which you can differentiate the IA?, does your knowledge of the law, or in their ability to collect evidence?, what in their capacity for analysis, or in the conviction with which he speaks, in as connects to other with their argument and passion that infuses when he presents his closing argument?
Where lies the true value of a doctor, and that the difference of the AI?, does the precision of their hands, the scientific knowledge that supports it and the ability to make decisions with coldness still working under pressure?, or what lies rather in the ability to connect with another human being, in active listening, empathy and compassion that he feels in the face of suffering, and the willingness to continue trying to save a life, even when all the odds are against you?
What is fundamental in the practice of journalism and what value you can offer to the AI? What will be the ability to write correct and comprehensively an article or an opinion column? what will be their ability of analysis, integrating diverse sources of information, and his ability to synthesize all with the correct words in a limited space?, or, what is the acumen to gain access to a source and the confidence that inspires you and allows you to obtain key information about a particular matter of public interest?
How not to have faith in humanity?
So I definitely think that Bill Gates is wrong to think that the majority of the professions will become irrelevant. Simply will evolve, incorporating the human factor as a distinguishing mark. However, considering the speed with which AI is evolving, I agree with the idea that “in our work, we will be replaceable”, not to be us to focus on the essence of what we do, and we put the best of our abilities.
And compared to the prediction of Elon Musk announcing the end of the job, I believe that the loss of jobs if you will, but it will be temporary, in the manner of transition and, although perhaps we will spend a bad time, sooner rather than later the society is espabilará, and create those social institutions to which he referred Sundar Pichai, necessary to put limits on the use of Artificial Intelligence and its influence on our lives. For the sample, what is happening in Europe where they are already taking steps in this direction with the issuance of laws that prohibit young children are exposed to screens before a certain age. It will also lead to the emergence of a movement that favors the purchase of products or services where the human factor is the protagonist[8].
That is to say, I think that preserving the human factor will become a collective purpose.
But, of course, is not so simple, because the changes we talked to represent, again, a challenge for the educational system. Because, with the AI present in our lives, it is more necessary than ever to create mental structure and teach you to think, to anticipate and, from a very early age, to promote the development of distinctive capabilities to which I have referred in this article.
And it is also a challenge for the organizations, their leaders, and the areas of human talent: To the leaders, in both their rightful wondering how to maintain the differentiation when all of the organisations in your sector have built-in AI. It is nothing less than a question of strategy and sustainability. And is that the incorporation of AI in an organization should follow a deep reflection that, inevitably, corresponding to their leaders and that may not be delegated to the AI; a question where a deepening both in the differentiation from the human factor, as in that which may arise from the proper use of AI as a driver of productivity.
For the areas of human talent in both I don't know about include phrases such as “appropriate use of AI”, or “ability to express the human factor in the development of their functions” in the job description, or to establish the above-mentioned skills as a requirement of the position, but think about how to redesign the job itself, and which skills you need to develop to bring out the human factor, since they must be part of the value, as a people, we must generate.
In front of the robotization, automation and artificial intelligence, which will no doubt becoming more present in our future, a smile, a word of encouragement, a hug, the support, the silent listening, or share an experience, or an idea, can add a lot of value.
While the AI will facilitate a lot of things and will give us many answers, you will make unnecessary many others. However, I think that we are still far from that technology to help us to deal with our emotions, or to eliminate the need to relate to one another, to be understood and to understand, or our need to create and share what they imagine, and I hope we never lose him, because we would be losing what is most essential, what makes us human.
But I have faith in humanity.
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[1] Sources: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/generative-ai-embraced-faster-than-internet-pcs/?utm_source=chatgpt.com; https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/sep/rapid-adoption-generative-ai?utm_source=chatgpt.com
[2] Article “Bill Gates predicts only three jobs will survive the AI takeover. Here is why”, referenced was published on march 28, 2025. You may be consulted at the following link https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/bill-gates-predicts-only-three-jobs-will-survive-the-ai-takeover-here-is-why/articleshow/119533999.cms
[3] Below, the links to the sources that ChatGPT recommended in connection with your response:
- In front of what was said by Sam Altman view: https://time.com/collection/time100-companies-2023/6284870/openai-disrupters/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- In front of what was said by Elon Musk to see : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cnbc_elon-musk-thinks-that-artificial-intelligence-activity-7127383373353758720-c1ud/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- In front of what is said by Geoffrey Hinton view: https://hrreview.co.uk/hr-news/future-of-work-hr-news/ai-godfather-very-worried-about-ai-taking-mundane-jobs/375467?utm_source=chatgpt.com
[4] The study has been referenced by the magazines Time and Nature, see: https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/?utm_source=chatgpt.com and https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02005-y?utm_source=chatgpt.com
[5] In front of what was said by Sundar Pichai view: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-artificial-intelligence-future-60-minutes-transcript-2023-04-16/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
[6] In front of what was Said by Fei Fei Li view: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-wont-replace-humans-joel-gonz%C3%A1lez/
[7] On the information published by the Unesco in 2023 to see: https://hepo.iesalc.unesco.org/pc/policy/countrygraph/cp/COL/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
[8] Something similar to what happened with the organic products and the decent work agenda, which today have stamps that credit and that have much more value to determine the buying decision of many families.