AI is being taught how to do your job. Will artificial intelligence replace us, or just change the way we work?

October 4, 2026 / 7:53 PM EDT / CBS News

Music producer Robbie Hiser is confident there will always be a place for creatives like him even though he taught artificial intelligence some of the tricks of his trade.

Hiser trained AI for Mercor, a company that works to make AI models like ChatGPT or Claude better in a wide variety of subjects from finance to poetry. The multibillion-dollar company has assembled more than 100,000 freelancers in a wide range of industries, available to teach AI what they know about their fields.

But Hiser and other trainers said they don't believe they're training themselves out of a job. Hiser thinks creative work like great songwriting, for example, will always require a human touch.

"AI doesn't have any life experience to pull from," he said. "An AI never had a girlfriend break up with it."

Still, nearly three-fourths of Americans now fear AI is coming for our jobs, according to a Pew Research study. And a September report from McKinsey Global Institute found AI could force 11 million U.S. workers into new careers by 2035.

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody sees the changes prompted by AI as a natural evolution. He believes…

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