A new report has sounded the alarm about the future of the workplace as we humans know it, listing the jobs most likely to be endangered by advanced artificial intelligence.
The list compiled by the UK Department for Education It spells bad news for white-collar workers, especially management consultants and business analysts, who are most at risk of AI automating their jobs.
He also warned that financial managers and directors, public accountants and psychologists are at risk.
The government agency said it used a methodology that evaluated 365 different jobs and their respective occupational and worker characteristics and compared them to 10 of the most common AI applications to see if the roles could be automated by AI.
“Occupations most exposed to AI include more professional occupations, particularly those associated with more office work and in finance, law and business management roles,” the Department for Education said.
Professionals working as managers and purchasing directors were the fifth most likely to lose their jobs due to AI, while economists and statisticians were sixth on the list above. reported the Daily Mail.
Finance and investment analysts, legal professionals, and even the broader job titles considered “business and related associate” professional roles make the list, ranked eighth, ninth, and tenth, respectively.
According to the British department’s findings, educational consultants, human resources administrators, accountants and payroll managers, as well as government administrative workers and marketing associates, are among the 10 to 20 occupations most exposed to the AI takeover.
The UK Department of Education specified that it examined generative AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard to reach its conclusions, vaguely citing that it examined other large language models, conversation-to-text applications, and image recognition AI.
At the other end of the spectrum, the agency found that occupations least likely to be overtaken by AI include “more manual work that is technically difficult, in unpredictable environments and with lower wages… with the exception of athletes.” , which are the least likely to be replaced by rapidly advancing technology.
Hands-on workers who don’t have to worry as much about AI taking over: roofers, construction workers, cleaners, laundromats, painters and decorators, gardeners and landscapers, and road construction workers, among others.
The Department of Education report comes a month after LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky said the gold standard of the bachelor’s degree is in danger from the monumental rise of AI.
“AI will make it virtually impossible for a single learning moment [like a degree] to last an entire career,” Roslansky said at the Talent Connect Summit, a conference of the top 2,000 recruiters in the country.
LinkedIn executives highlighted the “critical” need to upskill as AI technology develops, meaning employee adaptability will be an expectation, making four-year degree programs geared toward are practically useless.
LinkedIn’s own data showed that occupational skills are expected to change by 65% by 2030, as job postings mentioning ChatGPT or similar generative AI have increased more than 20-fold since last year, the social media site reported.
Chris Hyams, chief executive of Indeed, its job rival, said in September that as a result of technological innovation in the last decade, entire industries have been turned “upside down” and also warned that the skills learned in the university could become “obsolete.”
Even the head of ChatGPT, Sam Altman, has warned that AI represents a “risk of extinction” for humanity and has prepared for this so-called doomsday by stocking up on weapons, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water and gas masks from the Israeli industry. Defense Force.
He also has “a big piece of land in Big Sur that I can fly to,” he said in a 2016 New Yorker interview.
Altman’s apocalyptic vision of AI gone wrong is common in Silicon Valley, where a growing number of tech billionaires have poured money into post-apocalyptic contingency plans, such as remote bunkers, in recent years.
Some, like Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and initial investor in OpenAI, and Google co-founder Larry Page, have taken up land in New Zealand. The same New Yorker profile revealed that Altman’s “backup plan” was to fly to New Zealand with Thiel if the partnership fell apart.
Elon Musk has also sounded the alarm about the “dangerous” potential of advanced AI, warning that it could destroy human civilization if left unchecked.
“AI is more dangerous than, say, poorly managed aircraft design or production maintenance or poor automobile production,” Musk said in an interview with the Financial Times earlier this year.
“In the sense that it has the potential – however small one may consider that probability, but it is not trivial – it has the potential to destroy civilization,” Musk added.
