If Your Job Is At Risk Of Being Replaced By AI, It May Not Be Your Fault
Forrester, Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
How do you spend your workday? If your value to the organization is to process paperwork, take an order and fulfill it, manage data and people's access to it, report out a status, regurgitate templated or documented information, or have the same conversations over and over, I can confirm some hard news that you may already suspect: You'll be replaced by AI - and soon.
It's not really your fault, either. Your job description isn't usually the result of a 'choose your own major' scenario. Your organization created a lot of paperwork to process and needed a processor. You did the job as outlined in the job description that the org created. And the more paper, orders, numbers, and status reports that were produced, the busier you got, the more time you spent processing those things, and the more that task became your whole job, whole role, and whole value as an employee.
Now that AI, and especially agentic AI, can take on more of that paper processing, the same leaders who wrote that job description and put you in that role are hunting through the organization for the low-hanging fruit for easy replacement. HR, this affects a lot of you specifically.