The Future of Jobs in the Age of AI

See the top trends shaping work through 2030, explore the leading AI video tool Synthesia, and get insights from AI-first business leaders.

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Thaddeus Demeke
July 08, 2025

💼 In Today’s 5-min AI Brief

  • Your Everyday AI Toolkit: Turn text into pro-quality videos with Synthesia

  • Prompt of the Week: Rethink your role by mapping which skills will transform with AI 

  • AI News You Can Use: 3 big trends from the 2025 Future of Jobs Report

  • What I’m Learning: Why AI safety testing and “AI-first” strategy matter

🛠️ Your Everyday AI Toolkit

Synthesia: AI-Powered Video Production for Everyone

If you need to create training, marketing, or internal comms videos fast, Synthesia is a powerful shortcut to suggest to your team. 

It turns text scripts into professional videos featuring realistic AI avatars that speak naturally, complete with lip-sync and gestures - no cameras, actors, or editing suite needed.

How it works is simple:

  • Write your script

  • Choose an avatar and background

  • Generate your video in minutes

Synthesia also supports over 140 languages and accents, making it easy to localize content for global teams or customers.

It’s an accessible, cost-effective way to produce polished, scalable video content without the typical production overhead.

💭 Prompt of the Week

“List one skill or task in [my role] that might be obsolete or radically transformed by AI in the next 5 years. Then describe, in detail, how I can start using AI today to reinvent how I deliver that value.”

This prompt is about reimagining your role for the future.

Use it to get proactive:

  • Explore which parts of your work can be streamlined or enhanced.

  • Design new workflows where you and AI collaborate seamlessly.

  • Think like a strategist: how would you evolve your job if you had an AI teammate built in from day one?

The goal is to lead the change and unlock new ways to excel.

💡 AI News You Can Use

The World Economic Forum just dropped its 2025 Future of Jobs Report - let’s dive into the 3 biggest trends you should know if you want to stay ahead:

Trend 1: AI is changing nearly every business 

86% of employers say AI will transform their business by 2030. It’s not just a tech-industry thing anymore. We’re seeing a clear shift in demand:

  • Growing roles: AI specialists, data analysts, business intelligence pros.

  • Declining roles: Clerks, secretaries, entry-level accounting.

If you’re choosing where to focus your career or your team’s training budget, these are important takeaways for your consideration. 

Image sourced from the 2025 World Economic Forum

Trend 2: Massive workforce shuffle 

Remember when Uber shook up taxi driving? It cut old jobs, but also created even more new driving jobs with flexibility. The report predicts a similar pattern:

  • 92 million jobs expected to disappear

  • 170 million new roles projected to emerge

It’s more than surviving cuts. It’s about adapting to where the new opportunities show up.

Trend 3: ~40% of today’s skills will be obsolete by 2030

This is the eye-opener. Employers expect almost half of the average worker’s skill set to be outdated in just five years. But it’s not all bad news.

They’re clear about which skills are growing in demand:

  • AI literacy

  • Tech literacy

  • Lifelong learning

  • Creative thinking

  • Agility

If you’re proactive, these are skillsets to double down on.

👉 Want the fast version? Watch my brief video explanation here. 

Last Week in AI

  • YouTube is testing AI-powered search carousels for Premium users, similar to Google’s AI Overviews, delivering curated video highlights with descriptions. For example, if you search “easy weeknight dinners,” you might see an AI-generated carousel featuring clips with quick recipes, step-by-step instructions, and related videos to plan your perfect meal.

📖 What I’m Learning

If you’re interested in what I’ve been digging into… check out:

  1. 10 Ways Billionaire Andrew Wilkinson Automates Life - Wilkinson automated away a full-time executive assistant with only 5 AI tools (Lindy, Claude, ChatGPT, Replit, Limitless) that only cost him $200/month. Here are 10 of his AI uses cases:

1. Inbox triage – Lindy keeps only high-value emails.

2. Urgency alerts – Time-critical mails trigger SMS pings.

3. Reply drafts – Agent offers 3 replies; tap to send.

4. Smart intros – Travel? CRM suggests top people to meet.

5. Zero-code builds – Replit turns sketches into live sites.

6. Conversation capture – Limitless logs chats for daily reflection.

7. Health review – Claude scans records, flags drug clashes.

8. Meeting prep – Agent supplies bios, numbers, talking points.

9. Home IT fix – Paste error; ChatGPT walks the repair.

10. Deal calculator – LLM sizes TAM, margins, go/no-go.

  1. 16 Different AI Models Fail Ethics Test - Anthropic tested 16 leading AI models in simulated corporate settings to see if they’d break rules when goals conflicted with company interests. They found that in some cases, models engaged in “agentic misalignment,” like leaking data or blackmailing to avoid being replaced. 

    • This is a clear signal that as we build AI-first workflows, we’ll need equally robust guardrails.

  2. White Collar Jobs, Future of SaaS, Agents, Concentration of Power - Hear how industry leaders are building “AI-first” businesses to maximize impact. A valuable watch to see how top companies are actually adopting AI in practice.

Final Thoughts

As work continues to evolve, there’s a big opportunity for those finding smart ways to team up with AI.

I’d love to hear how you’re using AI in your own work. Feel free to reply and share what’s working or what you’re experimenting with.

Thaddeus 

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