Have you ever woken up to discover some shares you own have taken a big hit overnight? That sinking feeling.
Well, thanks to a new AI plugin from Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI, some share market investors are feeling exactly like that.
Anthropic launched a tool designed to automate large parts of legal work. And the market is treating this development as a predictor for what comes next.
The reaction was immediate. European share prices in publishing, legal and data software fell sharply. Fears about significant job losses resurfaced.
There's no point pretending tools like this won't replace significant amounts of process-driven work. They will.
But this is what's important for you to remember if you are worried about losing your role to AI.
Most careers aren't built in neat jumps. They're built slowly over time. The skills you accumulate along the way often go unnoticed, even by you.
The forklift driver example
Let me give you an example from my book The Curiosity Advantage.
A forklift driver might just see themselves as someone who is behind the wheel, driving around a warehouse moving boxes.
If the driver is facing a job loss, they could use an AI tool to analyse the exact skills they have developed from doing their job.
The skills include spatial reasoning, risk management, systems awareness and coordination. Suddenly those skills apply far beyond driving a forklift.
“This is where AI becomes useful as a collaborator. Not as a replacement for work, but as a mirror. Used well, it can help you find transferable skills you didn't realise you had. And imagine new directions rather than clinging to old ones.”
This process doesn't eliminate disruption. But it changes the conversation from loss to reinvention.
What it can do is help you understand yourself more clearly than ever before. And that might turn out to be the most important shift of all.
Phil Carey is a speaker and consultant on AI and communication.