As a final-year college student, I’ve seen many of my peers command artificial intelligence (AI) to write their resumes and job application emails.
But before commenting about lazy job seekers, a more intriguing question popped into my mind: What if the employers are also using AI to filter through those applications?
In that case, we now have AI-written resumes being read and evaluated by AI hiring tools. The main contributing writer is an AI. The first-hand reader is also an AI. So what’s left for humans—just the postmen hitting “Send” and “Receive”?
That might be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI reshaping human correspondence.
Even some working professionals I know openly admit they let AI draft emails to clients or collaborators—who may also be using AI to write their own messages.
And it doesn’t stop there; project proposals, meeting minutes, monthly reports are now also increasingly hand overed to AI for drafting, summarizing, and writing.
There’s no doubt that AI makes work more efficient and less mentally taxing. But the situation begins to look like what I’d call “a deal and a duel between AIs.” Or, for a more vivid analogy, think of the classic cartoon and video game Pokémon.
In the arena, it’s not the trainers who fight, but the Pokémon they deploy. Yes, the trainers gave commands and decide when to switch tactics, but the real impact lies with the little creatures in the battle.
Now replace the Pokémon with AI assistants. Have you seen the picture?
As humorous as that sounds, the implications are serious.
A video I saw recently showed two AI voice assistants recognizing each other and shiftingly switched into a robotic beeping language that human engineers couldn’t fully decipher. Although they didn’t seem like conspiring anything, they were obviously conversing beyond human’s understanding.
That’s what worries me, we might no longer be needed in work exchanges. We may be commanding the AI, but we are also outsourcing a great deal of the core process to the AI, like how companies used to outsource work to other agencies.
My AI co-writer asked, “How long until we (humans) forget what being the boss even means?” But ironically, with AI, we are getting more like a boss: give command, sit back, wait for others to do your work, and claim the credit in the end!
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