What to Do if AI Comes For Your Job — with Aneesh Raman

Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn's Chief Economic Opportunity Officer, joins Scott Galloway to address listener questions on AI's effects on work. In this first of a two-part series, they discuss strategies for mid-career professionals facing job changes, study advice for college students, and whether AI's job threats are overstated, drawing on Raman's experience from war correspondence to Obama speechwriting and his book Open to Work.

Reinventing Mid-Career Roles

Mid-career workers aged 40-60, often anxious about AI displacing white-collar jobs and age bias, should recognize that work is changing for everyone, not just new entrants. Raman advises forgetting job titles, which limit flexibility, and instead breaking current roles into tasks. Categorize them into three buckets: tasks AI handles well (quick analysis, research, first drafts, coding); tasks augmented by AI (learning or creating in new ways); and human-only tasks (collaborating with others using AI tools). Older workers lag in AI adoption, so immediate action involves experimenting with varied AI tools beyond basic search.