Advancements in technology have always spawned new kinds of jobs while rendering other ones obsolete. Artificial intelligence will be no exception.
At one time, no one had ever heard of a telegraph operator. An electrician. Auto mechanic. TV producer. X-ray technician. Software developer. Webmaster. Cybersecurity specialist.
Right now, we don’t fully know what those jobs will be. But that hasn’t stopped job seekers from trying to find out. “I think it captures that kind of moment that we’re in right now where there are a lot of new possibilities opening up and there’s a lot of uncertainty about where it’s going,” says Trey Causey, head of AI ethics at Indeed. But, he adds, “The interest is undeniable.”Workers want to ride the next job wave Indeed isn’t the only site seeing more searches geared toward AI.
A “major” impact on work was also asserted in a March 22 report by the IT consulting company Accenture ACN . It said generative AI — as in, language-learning models like ChatGPT — is set to “fundamentally transform everything from science to business to health care, for instance, to society itself.” It also argues that AI has the potential to reinvent every role in every company as “humans working with AI co-pilots becomes the norm.
But don’t fear the robot takeover just yet. The Goldman Sachs report from March also asserted that any displacement caused by AI would likely be offset by the creation of new occupations, which usually happens in the labor market during periods of technological change.Employers are looking to adopt and adapt AI Employers want to incorporate AI into their workplaces even if they’re not quite sure how.
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