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Your 3-minute exposure check
A five-question gut check on how exposed your work actually is. Not a scientific test — a starting point you re-take each year as the tools change.
A new book by Andre Templeman
Will AI Take My Job?
And What Can I Do About It?
A personal guide to the next ten years. What the data says, what's coming, and what you should do now — written for students and early-career workers, who are getting hit first.
First edition, for U.S. students & early-career workers · Kindle & paperback
The premise
The honest, unvarnished version
“Before you spend a few hours with these pages, you deserve the honest, unvarnished truth.” Read This First
Most writing about AI and work is either a sales pitch or a panic attack. This book is neither. It lays out what the evidence actually shows — that the disruption is already here, that it is landing on young people first, and that the good outcome is genuinely available but will not arrive by itself.
“Here is where the evidence gets personal, because it's not a forecast. It's happening now, and it's hitting young people first.” Chapter 1 — The Hard Truth
Then it does the thing almost nobody does: it makes specific, dated, checkable predictions, and invites you to hold the analysis to account.
Inside
What the book covers
CH. 1–2
The hard truth, and who's exposed
Which jobs are in the line of fire, and which let you stand a little further back.
CH. 3
Early warning signs to watch
Why waiting for the national unemployment rate is a trap: “By the time they shift, you are already wet.”
CH. 4–6
The possible futures
Scenario paths through 2036, why the good ending isn't automatic, and the two honest ways to respond.
CH. 7
What you can do, starting this week
Including "The Company of One" — a 30-day plan. “The policy outcome is uncertain. What you do is not.”
CH. 8
The other cost
Energy, water and guardrails — the electricity bill nobody pictures when they imagine this transition.
CH. 9–10
What to ask of your leaders
The case a hard-nosed skeptic would make, and how the U.S. compares.
CH. 11
Your voice is the lever
“You do not have to be eloquent. You have to be real, specific, and local.”
APPENDIX
Where every number comes from
How to read a jobs report, and the source behind every figure in the book.
Why this one is different
A forecast you can check
“A forecast you cannot check is just a vibe.”
The book runs a Monte Carlo simulation across 11 scenario paths, 80 runs each, combining labour-market elasticity estimates with technology-adoption curves — and then commits to numbers. Recent-grad unemployment and cumulative humanoid deployments, at six, twelve and eighteen months.
If those land close, trust the rest more. If they are way off, the analysis was wrong and you should say so. The scoreboard is public and lives on this site:
Who it's for
Students and early-career workers
This first edition is written specifically for people at the start of their working lives in the United States — the group the data says is already absorbing the first wave.
It is not a doom book. It is explicit about that:
“A book full of warning signs can leave you anxious. Anxiety does not help you act.” Chapter 7
“The worst thing you can do is nothing. The best thing you can do is something you can start today.” Chapter 11