{"id":73753,"date":"2026-06-14T23:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/73753\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T23:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:41:15","slug":"ai-wont-replace-jobs-humans-are-good-at-now-people-just-need-to-prove-their-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/73753\/","title":{"rendered":"AI won\u2019t replace\u00a0jobs humans are good at. Now people just\u00a0need to prove\u00a0their worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\tJune 15, 2026\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Journalists worrying about their profession becoming obsolete is nothing new. AI won\u2019t end their careers \u2013 but a failure to make a case for their jobs certainly will.<\/p>\n

Journalists have been scribbling worrisome screeds about their industry\u2019s imminent demise for as long as their job has existed. Before the arrival of social media or AI, frighted writers feared rolling news, radio broadcasts and even the dizzying speed of the electric telegraph.\u00a0
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It\u2019s the same with our current collective unease about AI. Reporters who are paid to explain the world \u2013 and fill column inches, books or TV slots \u2013 are continuing their illustrious record of reflecting their own insecurities. But will technology unmoor us from facts, insights and fresh ideas? Will the sheer volume of slop available dull our appetite for a good story? Will a computer replace a person who is able to get out in, experience and interpret the world? I\u2019m not so sure.
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Monocle, like many publishers, is on the faultline of this tectonic technological shift. AI is here but I hope that our position \u2013 to only publish work written, photographed or illustrated by humans \u2013 offers some pragmatism in a moment of hard-to-fathom hysteria and downward-pointed graphs. Many fears hinge on the overwhelming quantity of information that\u2019s now at our fingertips. We would all do better to focus on the quality of what we\u2019re told. In a world where so much is readily accessible, shouldn\u2019t we ask what\u2019s useful or what\u2019s trustworthy?<\/p>\n

\"\"Rage against the machine: Journalists need to stop phoning it in (Image: Bromberger Hoover Photography\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

We still believe in the importance of journalism<\/a> and remain optimistic about its role in helping to make sense of a rapidly changing world. Journalists can do far more than scrape content from secondary sources. They can meet people and ask questions, seek new information that\u2019s not part of the online narrative and subject it to scrutiny, and understand the world in a fuller sense than any machine will ever manage.<\/p>\n

Monocle isn\u2019t pessimistic about technology. AI can help with research and transcription \u2013 and a zillion other things. It can analyse medical scans, model data and churn through calculations at unimaginable speeds. Still, for the situation to work, the person posing the question must remain responsible for the answer, while the reader (or patient, or homeowner, or astronaut) should be alert to the risks of uncritically relying on AI output. The problem isn\u2019t the technology \u2013 it\u2019s no one being accountable for the claptrap that it can come out with.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0an\u00a0age\u00a0of\u00a0misinformation\u00a0and misattribution there\u2019s also a missed opportunity. Skilled, seasoned and well-connected reporters must gain access, argue the toss, risk a joke, plump for an amusing adjective and bring stories that matter to life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s time for journalists \u2013 and others unnerved by change \u2013 to stop moaning about the precarity of their professions and start making a better case for their relevance.<\/p>\n

Josh Fehnert is Monocle\u2019s editor. For more opinion, analysis and insight, subscribe<\/a> to Monocle today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Media June 15, 2026 3 Min Read Journalists worrying about their profession becoming obsolete is nothing new. AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,1133],"class_list":["post-73753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}