WIRED launches an AI-at-work AMA: send in your questions

A WIRED expert panel will host a live session on how AI is transforming the job market. It is a chance to put your questions directly to specialists who track how the technology is evolving and how it affects work.

What people are worried about

Uncertainty in the job market is growing. Which specialties will be in demand a year from now? How do you retrain if your profession is being taken over by AI? Will workers compete with machines or collaborate with them? Which new professions will appear?

WIRED has assembled an expert panel to discuss these questions live rather than in article form. Everyone's questions look similar, but the answers are often contradictory. Some talk about retraining, others about a complete reorientation of the market. That is why putting several specialists in one session makes sense: you can hear a range of views and ask follow-up questions.

Topics that usually come up:

• The impact of AI on salaries and demand for specialists
• Retraining and new skills for a new market
• How companies adapt workflows with AI assistants
• Labor regulation and protecting workers from mass layoffs
• Examples of professions that are already changing (design, programming, copywriting)
• Human-AI collaboration instead of replacement

How and when to take part

The live session will take place on May 27. Questions are being accepted right now through a form on the publication's website.

This is not passive viewing: moderators will pick the most interesting and pointed questions and read them out on air, and the experts will answer. There is a real chance of hearing an answer to your specific question from people who study this field professionally.

The format is a live stream, which means a real dialogue: questions arrive in real time, and the experts see them and answer spontaneously rather than from pre-written scripts. This format is usually more honest, since you can hear a factual answer instead of a politically correct one.

Why this matters right now

AI tools are no longer the future but the present: ChatGPT, Claude and others are at work in offices around the world. Designers generate illustrations with neural networks, programmers write code with Copilot, and marketers generate ideas and copy. But most people don't fully understand what this means for their careers over the medium term.

The information on offer tends to be either too optimistic ("AI will be your assistant") or too panicky ("everyone will lose their jobs"). What is needed is information from people who study this seriously, not popular forecasts.

"People don't want to know about the future of AI in general, but about their own future specifically."

That is the core of the appeal of interactive formats like the AMA.

What this means

The event format (a live session with audience questions) is becoming a tool for making sense of technological change. WIRED acknowledges that the topic is critical and that a platform for dialogue is needed now, when people are trying to fit AI into their careers but first-hand information is insufficient.