Worried About AI Taking Your Job? Tony Robbins Says It's Time to Build a Self-Reinvention Plan

Entrepreneur and bestselling author Tony Robbins has advice for people worried that AI will take their jobs: take a hard look at your current work, then build a self-reinvention plan.

Speaking on a podcast, Robbins said: "I don't think it will be artificial intelligence that directly replaces people. What gets replaced are the people who don't know how to use AI."

"In the past, everyone advised people to become software engineers and learn to write code, saying that would give you an iron rice bowl. But overnight, AI agents can now handle coding work for us. Yet today's top programmers orchestrate 50 AI agents working at the same time, and the amount of work they complete in a single day would have taken five years in the past. These are the people who are irreplaceable. So you have to look objectively at the work in front of you, and you have to face reality."

In 2026, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and many large corporations set off waves of mass layoffs, with companies using artificial intelligence to "do more work with fewer people." Experts believe that AI-driven workforce reductions will continue over the coming year.

In fact, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has made a much-discussed prediction: artificial intelligence may wipe out half of white-collar jobs and push the unemployment rate up to 20%.

As a motivational speaker, bestselling author and entrepreneur, Robbins has an acute understanding of the mindset of both employed and unemployed people. From financial giant Paul Tudor Jones to Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, a range of chief executives and top leaders have sought his guidance.

Robbins moves beyond traditional management theory and focuses on cognitive reframing and psychological training. Supporters of the method say it can help elite professionals break through psychological barriers and make high-stakes, major decisions under pressure.

Robbins believes workers should update their skills right now to withstand the shock of AI-driven change and to thrive amid the wave of transformation.

"If I were a taxi driver, an Uber driver, or someone in that kind of work, I would have to be honest with myself: given technologies like self-driving trucks, this job most likely won't exist in five years. This is just one of many industries that will be disrupted."