We’re Far Away From AI Replacing Everybody | Ford Rehires Engineers

We’ve seen a lot of this and I believe we’re going to see a lot more. I’ve been keeping tabs on it, and the reality is the benefits of AI have been largely overstated. The reason is simple. There’s been so much investment that AI and AI infrastructure is being pushed on businesses to implement, with the promise that it’s going to cut costs across the board.
But here’s what they’re actually finding. The more precise you need AI to be, the more mistakes it makes. When you get past the surface level and into real, high-stakes work, you start to see just how incapable it often is. And you need people who actually know what they’re doing to come in and fix it. So at best, AI works as a force multiplier for people who already know what they’re doing. The idea that it’s just going to replace everybody in a company, the engineers, the specialists, all of it, is simply not the case. And from where I’m sitting, we look far away from that ever being the case.
That’s not to say this will play out the same way at every single business, but it’s something worth keeping tabs on. Anybody who’s actually worked with AI understands this. It goes beyond the spectacle. Making funny pictures and videos is one thing. But when you really need it to be precise, especially when your job depends on it, you see just how often it gets things wrong.
If you’re following AI from a market or business standpoint, this is the part that matters.