Expected Impacts of Generative in the Jobs

A recent BBC article says that the generative AI technology may be able to improve worker’s daily lives and skills and even improve the overall work economy. For BBC article, where experts spoke with them about AI and future of work.

ChatGPT, a generative AI, is able to help workers to “write cover letters and resumes, generate ideas and even art in the workplace and more. It’s already making a splash in hiring with recruiters, who are finding they need to adapt to the new technology. And as competing companies rush to launch similar tools, the technology will only get stronger and more sophisticated.” This has already made workers worried that their work is being replaced the generative AI.

The following summarizes the key points of view from the experts who spoke to BBC:

Expanding daily idea solutions. Carl Benedikt Frey, future of work director at Oxford University, told BBC “It can help you brainstorm and generate new ideas. In his own field of academia, for instance, he’s seen it test for counterarguments to a thesis, and write an abstract for research. You can ask it to generate a tweet to promote your paper. There are tremendous possibilities. For knowledge workers, this could mean creating an outline for a blog and a social media post to go with it, distill complex topics for a target audience, plan a business-trip itinerary in a new city or predict a project’s cost and timeline.”
Increasing accuracy and correcting biases. According to experts “the technology is far from perfect, but can currently lay the foundation for workers to see outcomes and solutions outside their personal experiences, opening up opportunities for impartiality and inclusion across myriad fields and sectors.”
Adding new jobs and career. Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, US, who studies AI and innovation, says ” “I generate ideas all the time, and ask AI to do supplements on it. I use it to help me process information, to summarize stuff for me, very much as a partner. […] automation disruptions result in a lot of chaos in the short term, and then more jobs in the long term.”
Pushing workers to AI fluency. According to Frey “Workers resistant to AI could be seen as unwilling or incapable of adapting. I think workers that don’t work with AI are going to find their skills [become] obsolete quite rapidly. So, therefore, it’s imperative to work with AI to stay employed, stay productive and have up to date skills. Ideally we want to use these technologies to create new products, new industries, new lines of work. I think that is the challenge going forward – to actually use AI to generate new and previously inconceivable things.”

Here is the link to full BBC article: Workplace AI: How artificial intelligence will transform the workday

Jobs not affected by AI

Recently BBC News had also an interesting article about the jobs AI won’t take yet.