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3 Questions To Ask When AI Does Your Job Better Than You Do

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A Forbes contributor spent the piece walking readers through three self-reflection questions to ask when artificial intelligence starts outperforming them at work, built around the premise that experience still counts for something even as automation absorbs the tasks people spent years mastering.

The advice centers on introspection rather than reskilling: figure out what you would miss if a task vanished, what colleagues quietly rely on you for beyond your job description, and where your judgment might transfer to new problems. The piece frames this as reassuring, arguing that years of expertise aren't devalued by AI so much as redirected toward some other unspecified contribution.

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Nobody in this piece loses a job, gets a pay cut, or has to explain to a spouse why the position got automated. It's all hypothetical box-carrying and reassuring paychecks that keep arriving no matter what a machine does to your workload. That's a comfortable kind of thought experiment to sell to people who are not, in fact, comfortable.
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