Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a strong driver behind digitalization in recent years. Prominent and intensively promoted generative AI-tools have been reinforcing the ongoing hype also in the general public. The hype obscures the fact that not everything now called AI is new and that a broad range of different applications already exist. There are continuing debates on the impact of AI-based technologies on labour and the economy and a growing number of companies already apply these technologies in various areas. This technological change affects more and more professions that were previously not involved. On the longer run, many employees have to encounter significant changes in their daily work life.