AI’s Replacing Who Now? 🤖👷🏼‍♀️

👀 TLDR

In this week’s What’s Appening, we cover the debate over AI taking jobs in certain sectors. Social media has been ablaze all week after a model by Anthropic suggested some jobs were highly likely to be replaced by AI, but should we be concerned over what remains a theory? We also have news on Meta scooping up Moltbook, an app that can tell you when people wearing smart glasses are nearby, how Ben Affleck sold his AI company to Netflix, and much more.

🎬 Our Top Take

🤖👷🏼‍♀️ AI Jobs – Anthropic Study Leads to Debate On Impact 

Now and again, it’s AI talking points that go viral. This week, it was Anthropic’s study on AI replacement in the workplace, which modeled how jobs across various industries could be impacted by the technology. The image below was widely shared on socials, clearly showing that sectors in areas like hospitality, construction, and transport would be much less impacted than law, computing, and finance.

The study and the compelling image made for some sensationalist takes, which is unsurprising, but we’re trying to look more pragmatically. For a start, this is just one study by an AI firm (with skin in the game, don’t forget), and you can see by the red and blue areas on the chart that much of this remains firmly theoretical. There are also notable omissions, and they’ve grouped arts and media together, for example. But what can we gather from this? Well, if you sit down at a desk to do your work, your job’s going to change if it hasn’t already. If not, you’ve got more time. Well, until Elon Musk’s robots arrive. Inside the tech bubble, AI has taken us by storm, as the chart suggests. We expect AI Agent usage will skyrocket in unregulated industries. At 3Advance, we’re experiencing this in real time. Agents identify bugs and draft new features in our codebase. That doesn’t mean humans disappear. People will adapt, and companies need to stay competitive, with people and robots. Hopefully. #AIJobs Read more here.

📲 App of the Week: Nearby Glasses

Smart glasses have become all the rage, almost cool again, thanks to Meta’s partnership with Ray-Ban. Yet, here’s the thing: We all know that some people will use the glasses to be creepy by, for example, recording us (particularly women; let’s face it) without our permission. The remedy might come in the form of apps like Nearby Glasses, which can detect specific Bluetooth signals emitted by the smart specs. Now, we have to tell you that Nearby Glasses is still a work in progress ahead of a broader launch, but an Android app is available here. iOS should follow soon. It feels like a necessary idea.

🧐 Stat of the Week: 800m Accounts

📈📉 X – 800 Million State Manipulation Accounts Removed in a Year

As war rages across the Middle East, it’s worth remembering that regimes put social media at the heart of their efforts to manipulate and spread misinformation. It feels timely, then, that X has told a panel of British MPs about the scale of the issue, removing 800 million accounts – mainly from Russia, China, and Iran – in just 12 months. The scale is staggering, especially when you factor in that X’s real number of MAUs is judged to be around 300 million. #Removals Read more here.

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📍 Meanwhile at 3Advance

St. Patrick’s Day is one week away, and celebrations are already kicking off this weekend. Darren and Paul wanted to wish everyone a very happy St. Patrick’s Day, wherever in the world you may be celebrating. If you need a little help figuring out the best spots or events nearby, Shift has you covered. Shift was built to connect Irish people (and people who love Irish culture), so this is a really big one. From finding the nearest pubs and events to discovering where the best Guinness is being poured, it’s all there. So if you’re heading out this weekend or on the big day itself, download the Shift app, immerse yourself in the community, and enjoy. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️