AI Won’t Take Your Job, But Someone Who Can Use AI Might

John Hope Bryant introduces Juanita AI, named for his mother, and explains what the AI economy means for your job.
John Hope Bryant on Money and Wealth: AI Won't Take Your Job, But Someone Who Can Use AI Might

My mother, Juanita Smith, earned about $15 an hour for much of her working life. She bought and sold seven homes, paid cash for a Mercedes, and left this earth a millionaire. She was the best financial coach I ever had.

So when Operation HOPE built its first AI financial coach, we named it after her. Juanita AI puts financial coaching in anyone’s hands, any hour of the day, and I believe it can help more people in a single year than we have reached in decades. It doesn’t replace our human coaches. It helps them reach further.

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I recorded this episode on the road because I didn’t want the topic to wait. I talk about what the move from horses to automobiles can teach us about the AI economy, why skilled trades may be among the safest careers in America right now, and why I keep telling people that AI won’t take your job, but someone who knows how to use AI just might.

If AI has you anxious about your future, start here. Then go meet Juanita.

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Prefer to watch? The full episode is on YouTube.

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