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Forbes
11-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
20 ‘Old Role/New Role' Transitions For An AI-Dominated Work World
As AI continues to reshape industries, many professionals are wondering what their current roles will look like in the years ahead—or if their roles will even exist. The emergence of generative AI, intelligent agents and automation is not only changing how we work, but also redefining what work means. As a result, familiar job titles are evolving into hybrid roles that combine human expertise with AI-powered capabilities. Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share examples of 'old role/new role' transitions that could take shape in the workplace of the future. With creative thinking and adaptability, professionals can forge new paths and thrive in a work world increasingly shaped by AI. 1. SEO Specialist/AIO Specialist AI is enabling teams to do more with less, but they are finding that existing roles are actually expanding. We will see a shift from SEO to AIO. With GenAI increasingly driving discovery and serving as the primary source for vendor shortlists, existing content marketers have to reevaluate their processes and tools. Focus on the augmentation and acceleration of existing roles and tasks right now. - Domenic Ravita, Plotly 2. Graphic Or Digital Designer/Story Architect In the AI-powered workplace, the designer becomes the story architect. We'll see a shift from marketers and designers spending time building presentations to refining narratives instead. Those who once acted as presentation designers or PowerPoint troubleshooters will become facilitators of strategic alignment. There will be less formatting and more framing; less deck-building and more decision-driving. - Jason Lapp, Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify? 3. Supply ChainRisk Analyst/Resilience Intelligence Strategist Today's supply chain risk analyst could evolve into a 'resilience intelligence strategist'—someone who trains AI models, interprets AI-driven insights and guides real-time risk management decisions across global supplier networks. While this role increasingly requires AI expertise, human oversight is a critical aspect of validating data quality and properly calculating risk. - Theodore Krantz Jr., 4. Clinical Insight Lead/Life Sciences AI Trainer And Researcher We are starting to see the shift already on the healthcare data side, where companies are using experts to start making their models better. Previously, clinical insights leads and analytic consultants were the ones who did complex analytics; now, their role is evolving into making use-case-specific prompts and reviewing outputs from LLMs as life sciences AI trainers and researchers. - Rohit Mishra, Komodo Health 5. Content Project Manager/AI Orchestrator One change happening is that the project manager is now the AI orchestrator for content production. As AI generates content at scale, this new role manages prompts, models and workflows, overseeing both AI and human creators. It's no longer about crafting one perfect video, but producing 50 smart, targeted variations fast—each optimized for different audiences, platforms or times of day. - William Li, FancyTech 6. Customer Service Agent/Conversational AI Trainer An old role to new role scenario would be a customer service agent becoming a conversational AI trainer. Instead of handling every inquiry directly, former agents will fine-tune AI agents—training them on tone, response quality and escalation logic to ensure consistent and empathetic customer experiences. - Giridhar Raj Singh Chowhan, Microsoft 7. Individual Contributor/AI Agent Portfolio Manager Today's individual contributors will become 'AI agent portfolio managers'—much like hedge fund managers directing capital, they'll orchestrate AI 'teams' to execute their vision. Engineers will each manage 10 AI agents that handle different tasks while focusing on strategy. Success won't require deep tech skills, but strategic thinking about deploying AI resources, making everyone a mini-CEO of their domain. - Krish Ramineni, 8. Dispatcher/AI Data Strategist Dispatchers are evolving into AI data strategists, training and validating routing models that once relied on manual input. Recruiters may shift into talent workflow designers, curating prompts and refining hiring algorithms. These transitions retain institutional knowledge while empowering teams to work alongside AI, not beneath it. - Gaurav Sharda, Beacon Mobility 9. Financial Analyst/AI-Augmented BI Strategist The transition from financial analyst to AI-augmented business intelligence strategist exemplifies tomorrow's workplace evolution. Instead of manually building spreadsheet models, these professionals will architect AI systems that continuously monitor markets and generate insights, shifting focus from data manipulation to strategic interpretation and decision-making. - Hrishikesh Joshi, Okta Inc. 10. Insurance Underwriter/Custom Insurance Solutions Creator Insurance underwriters used to spend weeks manually collecting data, reviewing claims histories and assessing risk across disparate datasets and dozens of manual hand-offs. AI has made it possible to streamline the grunt work involved in that process, freeing up underwriters to spend less time extracting data and more time assessing risk and creating custom solutions for customers. - Vivek Jetley, EXL 11. Data Analyst/Insights Curator In a tech-forward workplace, AI can process massive datasets in seconds, but human interpretation is still gold. The traditional data analyst role will evolve into that of an insights curator—someone who doesn't just run reports, but who also crafts stories from AI outputs, aligns findings with business context, and asks better questions to unlock competitive advantage. - Alexander Kwapis, FusionPKG, an Aptar Beauty Company 12. SOC Analyst/AI-Augmented Security Operations Specialist A traditional SOC analyst focused on manual alert triage could transition to an AI-augmented security operations specialist. Instead of sifting through raw alerts, they'd train, validate and tune AI models, shifting from reactive incident response to proactive, strategic oversight of automated defense systems. - Michael Roytman, Empirical Security 13. Program Manager/Delivery Process Engineer Program manager roles will evolve from manual bookkeeping and grindwork, maintaining and driving processes, to playing a significant role in shaping the delivery machinery. Program managers are well-positioned to uncover bottlenecks at the intersection of product management and engineering/delivery execution. A single PgM will be able to oversee larger, more complex programs in a more high-impact role. - Krishnan Narayan, Palo Alto Networks 14. Instructional Designer/AI Learning Architect As AI reshapes education, instructional designers will evolve into AI learning architects—curating data, shaping adaptive learning paths and ensuring systems align with human development. It's not just about content design anymore, but governing intelligent, equitable learning ecosystems. - Timothy Kang, Fayston Preparatory School 15. Report Writer/AI-Powered Business Analyst AI is transforming roles by enhancing, not replacing, human expertise. For example, report writers can evolve into AI-powered business analysts, leveraging advanced tools to uncover insights and craft recommendations. Similarly, factory operators may become scenario planners, using AI simulations to optimize processes. Core skills remain crucial, but AI amplifies impact and accelerates results. - Daniel Kearney, Firmus Technologies 16. Marketing Content Creator/AI Content Strategist From a marketing perspective, I imagine marketing content creators evolving into AI content strategists. Instead of just writing copy, they'll be skillfully guiding AI tools, ensuring that the unique brand voice shines through and optimizing content performance with their strategic insights. The benefit is that it will allow them to leverage multiple media, boosting ROI, open rates and conversions. - Charles Yeomans, Atombeam 17. Data Analyst/AI-Assisted Evidence Builder Data analysts will quickly become 'AI-assisted evidence builders.' Instead of manual processing, they will craft questions, ensure data quality and interpret AI insights within policy contexts. Because of these changes, human expertise becomes more valuable in the years ahead—humans will make judgments about which patterns matter and how findings influence decisions while AI handles the computational work. - Nick Hart, Data Foundation 18. System Architect/Intelligent Systems Designer System architects focus on connecting tools and data. As AI becomes part of the core stack, that role is shifting into an intelligent systems designer—someone who decides where automation fits, when to loop in people and how to keep systems accurate as they evolve. It's a move from building stable systems to building systems that can adapt on their own. - Jēnna Reese, Connect Centric 19. Business Analyst/Multiagent AI System Designer Business analysts who currently map workflows and gather requirements will transition into designing multiagent AI systems. They'll architect how AI agents collaborate, defining which agent handles customer inquiries, which processes invoices and how they hand off tasks. Their process-mapping skills become crucial for orchestrating intelligent automation across entire business ecosystems. - Vinod Bijlani, HPE 20. Software Developer/AI Code Overseer As AI becomes more prevalent, entry-level developers will likely evolve into AI code overseers. Instead of just writing code, these individuals will manage AI-driven development. They'll need to understand why AI writes code in certain ways, ensuring accuracy and security. Rather than focusing on execution, the role will transition into intelligent oversight. - Steve Carter, Nucleus Security
Forbes
11-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
From Search Engines To AI Assistants: A New Era Of Digital Visibility
Murad Salikhov – serial investor and visionary | Founder of Schwarzwald Capital, empowering fintech and creator economy projects. For the past two decades, Google has been the kingmaker when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO) and online visibility. For some people, if you weren't on the first page of search results, you basically didn't exist. But now there's a new game in town, and the dynamic is shifting faster than many expected. The big disruptor? Artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT, Perplexity, Brave, Gemini—AI assistants are rapidly changing how people find and consume information online. And with that shift, we're entering a new era of SEO, one that has already received a popular name—AIO or AI optimization. What does this transformation mean for creators and digital entrepreneurs? I am a venture capitalist and fintech entrepreneur with over two decades of experience investing in emerging technologies, including payments, AI and the creator economy. Here's what I think: How People Search Is Changing In order to better understand the shift we're talking about here, let's first look back to what traditional SEO is. SEO is the practice of making your content more comprehensible to search engines like Google. It involves keyword research, meta tags, backlinks, website performance and a number of other technical elements. The end goal is to get your site to rank as high as possible in search results when someone types in a relevant query. But here's what's happening now: Instead of sifting through 10-plus links, users just want one good answer straight away. This is where AI enters the stage. Ask an AI tool like ChatGPT a question, and voila—it gives you a concise, straightforward reply without making you scroll through pages of search results. That's a vastly different experience compared to before. According to Gartner, by 2026, traditional search engine traffic is expected to drop by 25%, due to the rise of AI assistants. That's a massive shift in user behavior. In late 2024, Google's market share fell below 90% for the first time in over a decade. Meanwhile, OpenAI reported 400 million weekly active users for ChatGPT in February 2025—a 33% jump in just three months. And let's not forget hybrid platforms like Perplexity and Brave, which combine traditional search results with AI-generated summaries. AI tools are changing the way we find information, blending search accuracy with the convenience of a personal assistant. With this in mind, here's a simple check that creators can run to assess their visibility. Ask an AI tool a question about your niche: Does your name or brand show up in the answer? If not, it's probably a good time to rethink your strategy. What Digital Entrepreneurs Need To Know Now So if traditional SEO is no longer the only (or even the main) path to being seen, what should creators and digital businesses be focusing on? The name of the game now is AI optimization. Instead of optimizing just for search engines, the goal now is to shape your digital presence credibly and compellingly for AI models. And these models don't operate like search engines. They don't crawl the web looking for exact keyword matches. Many AI tools can interpret meaning and context, drawing on information from trustworthy sources. As such, here are a few tactics that could help you adapt: The way people ask things from AI is very different from how they use search engines. With traditional search engines, we tend to type short, tag-like queries—'best digital wallet 2025,' for example. But when using AI platforms, it often feels more natural to ask a full, detailed question, like we would with a physical person: 'I'm looking for this or that—what do you recommend?' That means the content you create needs to match that tone, 'explaining' things clearly, with natural language. It's not about stuffing keywords in your headlines. Think along the lines of: 'Would this sound helpful if someone read it aloud?' If yes, you're doing it right, and I've found your chances of being noticed by the AI could go up. As I already mentioned above, AI tools can pull information from high-quality, credible sources. That's why building authority in your niche now matters more than ever before. It's not just about having a well-optimized website anymore—it's about having a reputation and a recognizable digital footprint. Collaborate with target media for interviews and podcasts. Contribute to reputable blogs. Show up in newsletters. In my experience, the more your name appears in relevant places, the higher the chance AI models will recognize you as a legitimate source worth citing. Traditional SEO was built around the idea of giving search engine algorithms clear, structured signals to interpret—things like keywords, backlinks and metadata. These elements served as clues, helping the algorithm connect a user's query to the most relevant pages. It was a system based on indexing and matching patterns. AI, on the other hand, doesn't work like that. It's not just looking for clues—it's looking at meaning, context and intent behind a user's request. Less 'robot scanner,' more 'researcher.' AI models can analyze tone, coherence, credibility and how well information answers a question. They synthesize information from multiple sources to generate a useful response. That means your content strategy should focus on depth, clarity and authenticity. Make your positioning clear. Publish regularly, say things that matter and be intentional with your tone. When AI looks for a useful answer, it should find you because you are associated with coherent, high-quality content. Final Thoughts In the creator economy, AI is often talked about as a tool to help us make content. But AIO is all about a different take: that AI is now evaluating us. And if you want to stay relevant in the coming days, your job is to be worthy of being picked in its eyes. Be visible, be vocal and be trusted. Because in the AI era, visibility isn't just about search rankings anymore—it's about becoming the go-to answer when the machines are asked, 'Who's the best in this space?' Forbes Business Council is the foremost growth and networking organization for business owners and leaders. Do I qualify?
Daily Maverick
10-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Maverick
SA leads charge against Google AIO via pioneering, world-first antitrust action
The past decade and a half have not been kind to the news industry. The near-total capture of advertising revenue by Big Tech has devastated newsrooms around the world, forcing some papers to close and others to cut reporting teams to the bone. As always, there are tough, daring and determined reporters doing their best to expose the stories powerful people don't want us to know about. But they do so in an ever-more-difficult and financially precarious environment. However, a threat has now emerged that threatens the survival of the news as it has existed for hundreds of years. And while the general source of that threat may not be novel (spoiler: it's American Big Tech again), the specific tool is new and insidious: Google's AI Overviews (AIO). When you ask Google a question now, the familiar list of blue links is often shoved out of sight and replaced with an autogenerated summary – the AIO. Stealing In news-related searches, AIO are based on reporting scraped from news pages written by human journalists. To be crystal clear: Google is effectively stealing the reporting done by professional reporters without paying them for it, nor the news publishers they work for. Crucially, AIO also shoves the links to the source articles from publishers down 'below the fold' on the search results page, meaning that, in many cases, they simply won't be clicked through to at all. If users don't click through to the news websites that were scraped to create the AIO, that means Google hasn't just nicked the stories; it has also stolen the advertising revenue that helped pay for the reporters who wrote them. Lose-lose situation That leaves news publishers with a lose-lose situation: either allow their work to be taken for no fee and probably eventually go out of business, or opt out of AIO. But opting out of AIO also means opting out of Google's search indexing. And given Google's 90% share of the global search market, that is broadly equivalent to removing themselves from the internet entirely – and probably eventually going out of business. It's a desperate situation. But the fightback is under way – and South Africa is leading the charge, via a pioneering, world-first antitrust action. South Africa's Competition Commission has issued the most impressive response to this problem of any competition regulator in the world so far. In its provisional report setting out its response, the Competition Commission would order Google to allow news publishers to opt out of having their work stolen, but crucially also allow them to remain on Search, so they don't disappear from the web. Condescension The action by Competition Commission is strong, serious and world-leading – while Google's response smacks of neo-colonial condescension. It says the Competition Commission's plan would 'break' AIO, which has been 'helping people in South Africa more easily learn about complex topics'. We would suggest that if Google is so interested in helping South Africans understand 'complex topics', then perhaps it should stop stealing the work of South African journalists already doing exactly that. Instead, the tech giant has chosen to enter into a cynical embrace of Donald Trump in a naked attempt to gain presidential protection from exactly this kind of action by lawmakers outside the US. That's why it has to be defended. My organisation, Foxglove, is calling on governments, lawmakers, journalists and anybody who cares about the value of good information around the world to speak up for the Competition Commission and to defend it against the attacks it will soon face from some of the world's most powerful people. International fightback Establishing partnerships with other regulators around the world that are taking on this fight, including Australia, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, is a crucial next step. International partnerships enable joint regulatory investigations into how AIO is hitting news organisations across the globe; prevents any one regulator from being scapegoated by Google; and, through collective action, gives regulators the bargaining power to force Google to accept meaningful changes to its operations. One final point: while Google AIO has the potential to put all non-government press out of business, it is unlikely to wipe them out at the same speed. The biggest publishers may try to cut deals to avoid the worst impacts in the medium term. But small, new, independent and specialist newspapers – often the ones who tell the most important and under-reported stories – won't have the power to make those kinds of deals, even if they wanted to. So they will die first. If we want a world where access to information is not dependent on the benevolence of our rulers, nor the agendas of the owners of the most powerful media companies – or Google's auto-generated slop – then we're going to have to fight for it.
Time of India
09-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
OPSC AIO answer key 2025 released at opsc.gov.in: Submit objections online by this date, direct link here
The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has officially released the provisional answer key for the Assistant Industries Officer (AIO) recruitment exam 2025. Candidates who appeared for the written examination held on June 29, 2025, can now download the answer key from the official website, This answer key allows candidates to evaluate their performance and raise objections, if any, against the responses provided by the commission. The recruitment drive aims to fill 151 vacancies for the post of Assistant Industries Officer under the Odisha Industries Service cadre. How to download OPSC AIO 2025 answer key Here is how candidates who appeared for the recruitment exam can download the provisional answer key Visit the official OPSC website: On the homepage, go to the 'What's New' section. Click on the link titled "Answer Key for Recruitment to the Posts of AIO (Advt. No. 08/2024-25)". The PDF containing the answer key will open. Download and save it for reference. Objection window open until July 14 Candidates who find discrepancies in the provisional key can submit objections online until July 14, 2025. While submitting objections, aspirants must clearly mention the question number, answer provided, and their justification (along with proper source/reference material if possible). Objections without valid proof or submitted after the deadline will not be entertained. The commission will review all submissions before publishing the final answer key, which will be used to evaluate results. Direct link to submit objections here Selection Process The AIO recruitment under OPSC involves two stages: Written Examination: Conducted in objective-type format Interview/Personality Test: For shortlisted candidates Only candidates qualifying the written exam will be invited for the interview stage. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Vaastu Complaint: 2/3/4 BHK Homes: Hiranandani Fortune City Hiranandani Fortune City Enquire Now Undo What's next? Following the objection review, OPSC will release the final answer key and then announce the written test results. Candidates are advised to regularly check the official website for updates on result declaration, interview schedules, and document verification procedures. Ready to navigate global policies? Secure your overseas future. Get expert guidance now!
Scroll.in
08-07-2025
- Business
- Scroll.in
OPSC AIO answer key 2025 out; submit objections by July 14
The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has released the provisional answer key of the Assistant Industries Officer examination under Advt. No. 08 of 2024-25. Candidates can download the answer key from the official website Applicants can submit suggestions, if any, by July 14, 2025. The written exam was conducted on June 29, 2025. The recruitment drive aims to fill 151 posts. Candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of the written exam and personality test (interview). Applications were invited from January 15 to February 15, 2025. Steps to download AIO answer key 2025 Direct link to AIO answer key 2025.
