By RYAN ROSLANSKY and ANEESH RAMAN
Publication Date: 2026-03-16 19:00:00
Are you concerned about the impact of AI on your job? Do not worry. In her upcoming book Open To Work: How to get ahead in the age of AILinkedIn executives RYAN ROSLANSKY and ANEESH RAMAN show how to take disruption in a new direction using five very human superpowers: the 5Cs. In this exclusive excerpt, they reveal how vulnerable you are – and what you can do about it.
When someone asks, “What do you do?” You probably answer with your title. “I’m a marketer.” “I’m an engineer.” “I’m a barista.” “I’m CEO.” This is how we were taught to think about work: as fixed roles with fixed boundaries.
For decades, organizations have seen you this way, and as a result, you have probably seen yourself as well. Your title determines your pay grade, your place in the hierarchy, and your career path.
We internalized it all so deeply that our titles became our identities for many. “I’m an accountant,” not “I do accounting.”
The AI doesn’t care…
