A lot of what Conor Grennan does as a dean of students at NYU’s Stern School of Business could be done at least in part by bots. “It feels like the Gold Rush, like there’s a bunch of people getting to California and seeing little flakes of gold in the river”For example, Grennan might ask an AI to give him five suggestions of a good place to hold an event for 50 students in lower Manhattan on a Tuesday night, or have it reason through how young people in Ohio could help the climate crisis, or have it explain to him what exactly an API is. Even if they do keep their jobs, what these white-collar workers do and how they do it will likely be different if generative AI technology becomes widely used