I am delighted to announce the publication of my first book “The Displacement Dilemma”.

Expertise is hard won. It takes years of training to master law, accountancy, medicine, or in fact any discipline. You don’t walk into any job and become good at it on day one. You work hard, master your craft, get promoted, get better paid. It is one of the fundamental tenets of modern employment.

But that expertise was gained by doing lots of the jobs no-one else wanted to do. I started life as a lawyer, and I reviewed a lot of very boring documents, and wrote a lot of boring summaries, and went to a lot of boring meetings, and did a lot of very boring photocopying. But, after all of that, I became a pretty passable lawyer.

And then I moved into technology, and started the whole process all over again, teaching myself to program, learning how to read academic papers, and at the same time work out how to run a business.

AI is changing this right now.

A whole host of tasks that we used to train humans on are going or gone. Why pay people dollars to do something when a machine can do it for cents? As the technology gets better, the problem becomes worse.

In the book, I explore this “Displacement Dilemma”, and look at some of the ways we might be able to overcome it, if we move quickly. I also draw on my knowledge of AI and the industry that surrounds it, to look at some of the practical and ethical questions that AI brings up. Can a computer “own” something it creates? And does anyone own anything if the data the AI has been trained on has been “stolen”?

A number of people have accused me of scaremongering, of giving into the hype that surrounds AI. I am not. I have had an inside view on this industry since before it was an industry in its current form. I making GPU cards do things they weren’t designed to do before words like “inferencing” has been invented.

AI, in the form we see today, is like nothing the world has seen before. It really is coming for your job, in fact your whole industry, so buckle up and see how we ride out the Displacement Dilemma.