Advanced English - 8 - What industry will AI put out of business?

Hello, my name is Grace. I'm from South Africa. And what industry will AI put out of business?

I don't know. I don't think anyone knows enough to definitively say that AI will put a specific industry out of business. It's a bit like saying AI will put sort of paper-based media out of business, even though if anything happens to paper-based media, that'll be because of the times changing, not because of artificial intelligence, but just technology as a whole. And it's a bit like saying, you know, the telephone industry has been put out of business, and it's not. Even though you used to have operators who would reroute calls and those jobs became obsolete, the technology changed, but the simple fact of contacting people and needing to be in contact with other people remained.

And I think at the heart of it, some of the needs that industries have seen to and taken care of will still be there. So, in some form, the industry will exist, but there will be lots of changes because of AI, at least.