---
id: "quote-lose-jobs-to-humans"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ 1. Develop your AI augmentation strategy"]
tags: ["job-security", "ai-adoption"]
related: ["claim-job-loss-to-humans", "concept-ai-augmentation-strategy"]
speaker: "Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic"
speakers: ["Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic"]
quote: "All knowledge workers are less likely to lose their jobs to AI than they are to lose their job to another human using AI..."
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-36-team-collaborate-with-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2024/11/set-your-team-up-to-collaborate-with-ai-successfully"
sourceTitle: "Set Your Team Up to Collaborate with AI Successfully"
---
# Losing Jobs to Humans Using AI

> "All knowledge workers are less likely to lose their jobs to AI than they are to lose their job to another human using AI..."
> — [[entity-tomas-chamorro-premuzic]]

A succinct summary of the real threat AI poses to individual knowledge workers: it is a tool of *competition between humans*, not an autonomous replacement. This is the rhetorical anchor of the claim that [[claim-job-loss-to-humans]] and the motivation for adopting an [[concept-ai-augmentation-strategy-d9]].