AI Job Takeover, Ghost in the Machine, SaaSpocalypse, War, and Autopilot
Your Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 AI in Healthcare
💸 AI Job Takeover
📰 Media
👻 Ghost in the Machine
💥 SaaSpocalypse
👩💼 Siri
‼️ AI War
🛩️ Autopilot
Podcast
Harnessing AI in Healthcare: Insights from RJ Kedziora
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle Evans interviews RJ Kedziora, co-founder of Estenda, a company specializing in custom software and data analysis for healthcare. We discuss RJ’s journey in technology and entrepreneurship, the importance of energy management over time management, and the role of AI in healthcare. RJ shares insights into the challenges and future of AI applications, the need for ethical considerations, and the potential for personalized healthcare solutions. He also offers advice to aspiring entrepreneurs looking to make a difference in the industry.
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News and Useful Reads
Anthropic just mapped out which jobs AI could potentially replace
I’m still skeptical about the extend that AI can truly replace most people. But that doesn’t mean that companies won’t try, no matter the long-term consequences.
AI can theoretically cover most tasks in business and finance, management, computer science, math, legal, and office administration roles. However, in most sectors, actual adoption—which the researchers measured using work-related usage data from Anthropic’s AI model Claude—is just a fraction of what’s theoretically capable.
Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry
Media workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews, which summarize articles and present them to users in one easy-to-read digest.
The ghost in the machine has changed sides
As humans, we’re maintaining responsibility, but abdicating authorship.
Instead of imagining a ghost inside ourselves, we are quietly relocating our agency into the machines we build. We are becoming accountable for decisions we no longer meaningfully author.
Good news: AI Will Eat Application Software
When I read the SaaSpocalypse article and the general reactions to it, my first thought was, “It seems like none of these people have ever worked on enterprise software.”
The bear case rests on a basic misunderstanding of what software companies actually sell. The market is treating “software” as though it were a commodity input—as if the value of a software company resided in its code, and cheaper code meant more competition and therefore cheaper companies.
Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again
Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024. Over about a year and a half since then, the release date for this new era of Siri has been continuously pushed back. According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, we’ll likely have to wait even longer.
When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind
What was unthinkable a few years ago is now our reality: autonomous, AI-powered warfare.
The bigger question seems to be how we got to the point where releasing killer robot drones and bombs that identify and eliminate human targets wound up in the conversation as something that the US military would even consider.
Other Interesting Finds
Scientists say most of what you do each day happens on autopilot
A new study by researchers from the University of Surrey, the University of South Carolina, and Central Queensland University suggests that much of what we do each day is guided by habit rather than deliberate decision making.