{"id":284409,"date":"2026-01-14T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/284409\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:18:24","slug":"david-w-higgins-how-the-awesome-power-of-ai-could-gobble-up-professionals-like-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/284409\/","title":{"rendered":"David W Higgins: How the awesome power of AI could \u2018gobble\u2019 up professionals like economists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">AI tools like Gemini, Grok and Claude are revolutionising professional fields by automating complex tasks\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nany jobs face disruption as AI increasingly performs tasks traditionally done by professionals. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e9a61896-847f-4990-a430-450370821716.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Nany jobs face disruption as AI increasingly performs tasks traditionally done by professionals. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019m one of those people. I spent the Christmas break engrossed in the latest AI tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Go back many years and people did the same with new games consoles or phone apps. Your feedback fed the talk at dinner parties. Now the chatter is what tools your office has for vibe coding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI tools like Gemini, Grok and Claude are revolutionising professional fields by automating complex tasks Nany jobs face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,3498,290,142848,18,823,19,17,82,4709],"class_list":{"0":"post-284409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-dave-higgins","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-google","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115895068469786279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}