When you show up to a construction site tour in sandals, Procore Technologies has you covered. Steel-toed boots, socks, gloves, hard hat, safety vest, and glasses. I was stylin’ 🤣
This week, I led a strategic AI workshop for Procore marketing executives in Austin. At lunch, we joined their Construction Technology Camp where fifteen middle schoolers were learning about careers in construction and construction technology.
This is what I love about my job. I get exposed to all sorts of industries from insurance and medical to automotive and construction.
Microsoft just released data showing which jobs are most and least affected by AI. (See more details in comments) Many of the careers these students were exploring scored low for AI applicability. Concrete finishers, roofers, HVAC, civil engineers, architects. Jobs that need hands-on skill, complex problem-solving, and making judgment calls in messy real-world situations.
We toured an active construction site in the building. Then we saw a Boston Dynamics robodog surveying the site, collecting daily progress data.
The humans were still designing, building, problem-solving, and managing the complex work of construction. But now they have better data to make decisions faster.
These students are discovering careers where humans stay essential, even as technology changes the tools around them. They’re learning to work alongside technology that makes them better at what they do.
The future of work is about people who can bridge both worlds.
Shoutout to Procore for investing in the next generation and showing what people-first, AI-forward really looks like.
Christine Cefalo, Angie Hill, Kathryn Hoefs McTighe, Kristopher Lengieza, Dan Silmore, Thomas Gunter, Brian Payne and team, thank you for having me. I’m grateful to be a part of your AI journey.
Allie K. Miller posted this week the list of the 40 jobs most AI-applicable and the 40 jobs least AI-applicable based on the Microsoft report: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alliekmiller_microsoft-just-released-their-list-of-the-activity-7353864207102009345-E5yG