In 1900, four out of ten American workers worked on a farm. Today almost none do - and American agriculture produces more than ever.That is the pattern this book is about. An industry can grow while its jobs disappear. It happened to farming. It happened to factories. It happened again when work crossed borders.Now it is happening to knowledge work.For three waves of change, the advice was the same: get educated, learn something the machine cannot do, climb higher. It worked, because human intelligence was the one place machines could not follow.That assumption has quietly stopped being true.Mike Nagavalli spent more than thirty years inside banking and technology, leading large-scale transformations and watching jobs reshaped around him. Then he built and published several mobile apps using AI, despite not being a software developer - and cut a team of forty-five to thirty-one, because AI now does work he used to pay people for. He has seen this wave from both sides of the desk.AI: The Fourth Wave is not a prediction and not a panic. It is a clear-eyed look at what is actually changing, built on evidence rather than headlines, and written to be read in one or two sittings.Inside:Why your job is a collection of tasks, and how to work out which of yours are at riskWhat three previous waves of disruption teach us about who recovers and who doesn'tWhy AI shrinks the value of experience you can write down, and raises the value of judgmentWhat to do if you are starting out, and the first rung has moved higherWhat to do if you have thirty years of experience and are told to "retrain"How employers destroy their own talent pipeline without noticingWhat countries like Singapore, Germany and Denmark are doing that worksNine worksheets to take your own job apart and plan your next moveThe question is no longer whether AI will change your work. It is where your work is moving, and what you do about it now.Includes an afterword on how this book itself was written with AI - what the machine got right, what it got wrong, and what it could not do at all.
