The robots aren’t coming. They’re already here.
Not long ago, I read a story about an accountant aboard — a sharp-minded, silver-haired professional who also teaches tai chi on the weekends. He had spent over 40 years in the industry. Calm. Measured. The kind of person who’s weathered market crashes and tax reforms like a monk in a storm. But even he didn’t see this coming.
His son — who followed in his footsteps, qualified, committed, and ambitious — was recently let go. Not downsized. Not part of a restructuring. Replaced. By ChatGPT.
I won’t name the London firm, but it’s one of the big ones — the kind you’d expect to hold the line on tradition, if only out of pride. Yet here we are. This isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s not a future tense. It’s now.
Goldman Sachs estimates that AI could displace 300 million jobs worldwide in the next couple years. In 2025 alone, over 76,000 roles have already been eliminated by AI — and that’s a conservative count.
But let me be clear:
This isn’t ran…
