Is your job AI-proof? LinkedIn’s Aneesh Raman on the new rules of work
When Aneesh Raman left a rising career as a CNN war correspondent to join Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, he was betting on discomfort. It was, he says, “the riskiest but easiest thing I ever did.” That same instinct–to run toward fear rather than away from it–is at the heart of his new book, Open to Work, co-authored with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky, on what artificial intelligence means for the future of work. Raman, who serves as LinkedIn’s Chief Economic Opportunity Officer, spoke to indianexpress.com about the book, the anxieties of the Indian workforce, and why he believes the country is sitting on underutilised advantages in the age of AI. ‘The fear is real. So is the biology behind it’ On the inherent anxiety among employees surrounding AI, he says, “It is completely justified. It is also biology. The human brain is wired to fear change. It is wired to not get exponential change, and this is a moment of big exponential change.” “Work is not ending, but work is changing,” he says. “The people who …
