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AI could affect up to 80 percent of US workforce: research

Artificial intelligence could impact the work tasks of roughly 80 percent of the U.S. workforce, according to new research, as the tech develops in ways that could augment or even displace some labor.

Researchers from OpenAI, OpenResearch and the University of Pennsylvania argue in a new paper, posted to arXiv, that around 80 percent of the workforce could have at least 10 percent of their work affected by the implementation of large language models, including Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), in their industry.

Nearly 20 percent of workers could see at least 50 percent of their work tasks impacted — and around 15 percent of all work tasks in the U.S. “could be completed significantly faster at the same level of quality” with access to the artificial intelligence tool.

The researchers used AI to get to their findings and looked at exposure to the tech “as a proxy for potential economic impact” and didn’t distinguish “between labor-augmenting or labor-displacing effects.”

Several occupations — including mathematicians, writers and authors, journalists, web and digital interface designers and tax preparers — as highly exposed, meaning the researchers predict GPT tech could significantly cut down work task time in the jobs.

The paper concludes that LLM technologies “could have considerable economic, social, and policy implications” if implemented in the U.S. workforce.

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4 thoughts on “AI could affect up to 80 percent of US workforce: research”

  1. Then dont go through that door.

    Its like gas and oil. Decades ago a car was made that ran on water. Water! 75% of the earth is water. But the economic damage it would cause to change. Loss of jobs, no more money for big oil and Saudis. Well that car was scrapped. Common cold….cmon man…all those big head scientists. If a remedy were offered, all those drugs on many shelves would be for not….lots of jobs lost.

    Nope and nope to AI

  2. Some of the workers in various places already act like they have either artificial intelligence or none at all.

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