Ari C. Mercer
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How AI Ends the Career as We Know It — and What Comes Next
AI is replacing careers, not just jobs. The book for anyone who senses the rules have changed.
"If the machines can do what we trained to do, what are we for?"
The career as we know it is ending. Not someday. Now.
A radiologist discovers that a machine reads scans she spent thirteen years learning to interpret. A warehouse manager watches his workforce shrink from 240 to 62 in five years. A marketing executive with an MBA is restructured out of the profession he spent two decades building.
None of them failed. All of them were superseded.
After Work maps the transformation that AI is bringing to professional life — white-collar and blue-collar, from radiology to warehouse logistics to the vanishing middle of the corporate pyramid. It dismantles the comfortable fallacies ("just learn to code"), builds the alternatives (new social contract, distributed AI ownership, care economy), and asks the harder question most books on AI avoid: if the machines can do what we trained to do, what are we for?
Sixteen chapters. 54,000 words. Extensively sourced.
Format — eBook & Paperback
Pages — approx. 236
Publisher — Guiding Mortals
ISBN — 978-3-9828685-2-3
Language — English