Riding the AI Wave Together

We heard from people across a wide range of backgrounds:

🎓 Students preparing for their careers
🧭 Early / Mid / Senior career professionals navigating change
👥 HR leaders thinking about workforce impact
🚀 Entrepreneurs and startup founders building with AI
🧑‍💼 Managers reshaping teams
🌊 And those who have already lived through multiple technology waves

The conversations and perspectives we gathered became the foundation for a richer community discussion. They reminded us that there isn't a single AI story. Each of us is experiencing this wave differently.

Looking back, the survey confirmed something I had suspected from the beginning.

AI may be a shared technology wave, but the way we experience it is deeply personal—shaped by our careers, industries, responsibilities, and aspirations.

And that's exactly why these conversations matter. 🤝

AI is everywhere right now. But how is it actually impacting our workplaces and careers?

This question came up recently as I’ve been working with Congqin Chen and our marketing interns at alliz, preparing for a community-led discussion around AI's impact on careers.

Our interns, Verena and Kaung, are college students in Tokyo, thinking about their first steps.

Our leader Congqin and I have been in the IT industry for some years, having seen multiple technology waves come and go.

And we realized we’re all asking the same question, from different angles.

At the same time,
I started thinking about my own LinkedIn network.

With a diverse network of professionals spanning industries, countries, and career stages, LinkedIn has come to feel like a microcosm of the world.

• Japanese professionals working overseas

• Former colleagues across global teams

• Friends from my college, high school, dating back to my days in Japan

• Current students studying in Massachusetts, Japan, and beyond

• HR and L&D professionals shaping workforce strategy in Japan and the U.S.

• Entrepreneurs and startup founders building new organizations

• Many leaders guiding teams through change

Each of us is likely experiencing the AI wave differently.

Some are actively experimenting.
Others are trying to understand what skills matter.
Many are wondering how organizations themselves are changing.
For some, it’s about redefining roles and team structures.
For others, it’s simply observing and thinking about the next step.

However, I would like to remind ourselves that AI is not the first wave to reshape careers.

Before it came, we lived through...

💻 PCs
🌐 The Internet
📧 Email
☁️ Cloud computing
📱 Smartphones
👥 Social media...

Each wave created both opportunity and uncertainty.

Some roles disappeared.
Some new ones emerged.
Organizations changed.
Career paths shifted like the moving staircase in Hogwarts.

Now we’ve entered another wave.

But this time, the question isn’t just technology readiness,
it’s human readiness.

So rather than guessing—or asking AI—we decided to ask people directly.

We launched a community-wide survey to understand how people across different backgrounds, regions, and career stages were experiencing and riding the AI wave.

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