AI: Adapt or Perish

0:00It's March 30th. Welcome in. This is Adelaide News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. Former PWC consultant Donald King has a start message for workers ignoring AI, adopted or get left behind. He worked in the firm's AI factory from 2021 to 2024, building autonomous agents that automated 30% of, back off his tasks for big clients. King says his team created dozens of AI bots, even one mimicking humans on Microsoft teams, which hit him with a moral gut punch before he got laid. Off last year, meanwhile, tech entrepreneur Sean DeWalker runs his startup inbox API entirely on AI with no human staff. After six years in meta, he now uses tools like Claude for coding, chat GPT for marketing and Gemini for videos, spending just a couple thousand dollars monthly on subscriptions. He calls it cheaper than hiring people, and notes AI's massive leap since last November,

1:01when models started out coding even pros like him. Workers are feeling the heat, from King's guilt over job killing bots to DeWalker's grief watching AI eclipse decades of skills. Big tech layoffs fuel the fire. At last, he had cut 1,600 jobs, Amazon 16,000, and meta might slash 20%. At ex-Microsoft staffer, Ben Shor doubts AI is the sole culprit, saying companies spin it as forward-thinking PR. Experts like University of Sydney, Professor Clinton Free, point out safer gigs, garbage collectors, carers, gardeners, and hands-on roles in trades, or education-resist full automation. Still, DeWalker warns Australia's policy makers aren't ready for mass job shifts. The bottom line? AI's raising the output bar, sky-high businesses, and workers who jump in thrive while holdouts fade fast. Time a level up, or watch the game change.