AI is coming for any job that runs on written-down rules, which is bad news for routine white-collar work but points to where human value still holds.

• Any job you can fully describe in a set of rules — like bookkeeping — is exactly what AI will do faster and cheaper.
• Safe work is the kind you can't write down as instructions: judgment, taste, wide-ranging knowledge, and real relationships built over years.
• Bosses cutting costs by swapping hundreds of customer service reps for cheap computing power are "racing to the bottom" — and the prize for winning that race is having to live at the bottom.
• The real opportunity is going the other way: making work more human, since computer networks quietly push people apart even as social media pretends to connect them.
• Money gets made where you connect human to human and create something a machine can't.

Outlook: Expect more companies to automate rule-based roles aggressively, while the durable jobs and businesses will be the ones built around irreplaceable human judgment and connection.