HealthIT Answers January 13, 2026
The arrival of ChatGPT as a mass consumer tool, available to anyone with a smartphone or a PC, in November 2023, heralded a new Armageddon scenario for the global employment market.
The fear that machines would replace humans within months was quickly replaced with a new narrative that, far from making millions of people redundant, AI would be a jobs creator, enabling us all to be more productive.
The reality has been a strange hybrid of the two, but it has given rise to a previously unforeseen phenomenon which, while less catastrophic than the former, has the potential to destabilize companies, sectors and even entire economies, the rise of the multi-disciplinary, power employee.
A paradox is unfolding, particularly within knowledge-intensive...







