What Synthesia Can Do
AI avatar videos
Text-to-video in 120+ languages
Corporate training videos
Marketing videos
Personalized video at scale
No cameras or actors needed
Jobs Threatened by Synthesia
MEDIUM IMPACT
Corporate Trainer
At-risk tasks: Training video creation, Onboarding content
Video Producer
At-risk tasks: Talking head videos, Explainer videos
What Synthesia Can't Do (Yet)
Avatar quality not matching real humans
Limited gestures and expressions
Cannot replace live presentations
Uncanny valley issues
Where Humans Still Win
These are the skills and capabilities that keep you valuable despite Synthesia:
Live audience engagement
Authentic personality
Improvisation
Complex demonstrations
How to Stay Ahead of Synthesia
1
Learn to use it: Become the person who leverages Synthesia rather than competes with it. Master prompt engineering and AI-assisted workflows.
2
Develop human-only skills: Focus on the advantages listed above—emotional intelligence, creative vision, ethical judgment, and relationship building.
3
Move up the value chain: Transition from execution to strategy. AI handles tasks; humans provide vision and judgment.