What kinds of knowledge will save you from AI?

These two specific types stand out. For some professions, “AI is coming for our jobs” is no longer a vague threat about future events. Timothy McKeon, who spent years translating to and from Irish for the European Union, knows this better than most. As machine translation has improved, the ability to produce a text that is “good enough” has taken a huge bite out of his livelihood—costing him roughly 70% of his income as his EU work dried up. “The more it learns, the more obsolete you become,” he told CNN. And McKeon is not an outlier. 43% of translators have seen their incomes drop thanks to the increasing presence of AI alternatives in the marketplace.