AI Effect: Are Google, Quora, and Wikipedia losing their jobs too?
It’s not just people — even Google, Quora, and Wikipedia risk being replaced by AI
By Sanjay Dubey
Whenever we talk about the negative impacts of Artificial Intelligence, one thing everyone seems absolutely certain about is that millions of people across the world will lose their conventional jobs to AI. And reports suggest it’s already happening.
What few seem to acknowledge, however, is that people aren’t alone in this. The internet’s most familiar tech giants — the very platforms that shaped the internet as we know it — might also lose their long-held roles to AI.
There was a time when a question meant a Google search. If you wanted a quick fact, you landed on Wikipedia. If you sought lived experiences or quirky personal takes, you turned to Quora. These platforms built their identities as the internet’s go-to spaces for trustworthy information, structured facts, and diverse opinions.
But that world is quietly, swiftly slipping away.
A new kind of information engine is taking over — AI-powered conversational tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. And ironically, the biggest search engine on the planet now finds itself scrambling to survive the AI revolution it helped set in motion.
What’s quietly being upended isn’t just technology — it’s the entire architecture of how knowledge flows on the internet.