The Next Move

An Honest Guide to AI and Your Career

De: Neil Addison

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The headlines say AI will transform your career. The government spent £27 million on a skills programme that practitioners call a vendor directory. The career books promise prompts and transformation. None of them are talking to you.

You're a working professional. You sit at a computer. You've read the predictions — 18 months until full automation of professional tasks, half of entry-level white-collar jobs gone within five years — and you don't know what to believe or what to do about it. The optimistic books feel dishonest. The doom books offer no path forward. The corporate AI awareness session lasted an hour and told you nothing useful.

The Next Move is the book that occupies the empty middle: honest about the threat, grounded in the best available evidence, and built around helping you assess your own situation rather than accepting someone else's generalisation about it.

Inside, you'll find:

• Why the alarming predictions and the reassuring data are both correct — and what the gap between them actually means for your timeline
• The Brookings research showing that 6.1 million high-exposure workers lack the resources to adapt — and the five factors that determine which side of that line you're on
• The Working Picture — a framework for understanding which parts of your professional value are most exposed and which are more durable than your job title has ever required you to notice
• Five strategic directions for investing your limited time and energy over the next 12–24 months
• What AI tools actually can and cannot do — enough understanding for an informed conversation, not a course you don't need
• An honest chapter on the hardest scenarios: high exposure with limited options, age as a factor, geographic constraint, careers that may not survive in their current form

This is not an optimistic book. It is not a pessimistic book. It is an honest one — written for the professional who deserves a straight answer and hasn't been able to find one.

Neil Addison writes about AI strategy, professional development, and the gap between what working adults need and what they're currently being offered. The Next Move is the founding text of You & AI (youandai.help), an independent venture providing honest guidance to professionals and SMEs navigating AI disruption.