According to Ethan Mollick on Twitter, AI-driven job disruption will trigger boundary competition among professions, a dynamic explained by sociologist Andrew Abbott’s System of Professions. As reported by Mollick, historical patterns show occupations renegotiate jurisdictions—who is authorized to do what—whenever new technologies emerge, suggesting AI will shift tasks across roles like analysts, paralegals, radiologists, product managers, and software engineers. According to Abbott’s framework (University of Chicago Press), professions defend, invade, or share jurisdictions via legal claims, workplace routines, and cultural legitimacy, indicating near-term business impacts in task allocation, credentialing strategies, and vendor procurement of AI tooling. As highlighted by Mollick, leaders should map task-level jurisdictions, redesign workflows around AI copilots, and anticipate regulatory contests over scope of practice, creating opportunities for firms to build compliance-aware AI products and for upskilling providers to target contested tasks.