BEWARE OF BOTS

TitleBEWARE OF BOTS
BrandSKILLBOX
Product/Service"UX DESIGN." ONLINE COURSE BY SKILLBOX & MICHAEL JANDA
Category I04. Social Behaviour & Cultural Insight
Entrant POSSIBLE MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Idea Creation POSSIBLE MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Media Placement POSSIBLE MOSCOW, RUSSIA
PR POSSIBLE MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Production POSSIBLE MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Production 2 SKILLBOX Moscow, RUSSIA
Additional Company LUCKY SITE Moscow, RUSSIA
Credits
Name Company Position
Vlad Sitnikov Possible Moscow CCO
Artem Filimonov Possible Moscow Creative Director
Fedor Nozdrin Possible Moscow Art Director
Ksenia Boyarkina Possible Moscow Senior Digital Producer
Rezeda Lutfullina Possible Moscow Junior Digital Producer
Oleg Pesochinsky Skillbox Head of Video Production
Timur Khamidulin Skillbox Director-?ameraman
Victoria Sysoeva Skillbox Special Projects Producer
Kirill Kosobok Skillbox Sound Mixing / Mastering
Konstantin Novikov Struttura Motion Graphic Designer

Background

Research* has shown that over 80% of white collar workers such as accountants and auditors will lose their jobs by 2024. They will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Creative professions, on the other hand, are safe. For instance, designers. The goal: get the target audience to notice the Skillbox design course by Michael Janda, author of “Burn Your Portfolio”. *The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation – Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osbourne, University of Oxford and https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/

Describe the strategy

Our target audience: accountants, finance managers, auditors – everyone who deals with a lot of paperwork – still interact with printers on a regular basis. The element of surprise is our trigger.

Describe the execution

Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s, ‘First Law of Robotics,’ which states: “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”, online university Skillbox is launching the world’s first bot that warns of AI taking people’s jobs by sending message to printers connected to the internet all over the world. The quickest and most unconventional way to deliver our message to specialists whose jobs are threatened by artificial intelligence today…. Is their office printer. Our bot uses the open API of Shodan.io – the world’s first “Internet of Things” search engine – to find printers connected to the world wide web via 9100 ports. Once an open port is discovered – the message is sent to print. Inspiring people to start learning design right here, right now. After all, there is not much time left.

List the results

– 1 869 000 messages sent by the bot; – 32 473 website visits; – 5 891 submitted applications.

Please tell us about the social behaviour and / or cultural insights that inspired your campaign

One of the frequent topics in the modern media is that in some jobs artificial intelligence will soon fully replace humans. Well-known publications (Forbes, Inc., futurism.com) write about it, opinion leaders have debates about it and scientists carry out research. We drew inspiration from the works of two researchers from Oxford University - The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osbourne – and the website https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/