Tina Huang goes through lists of jobs and career clusters and research papers that endeavor to project AI impart on jobs. Research papers with names like "Future of Jobs Report 2023", "Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work".
What jobs are most likely to be reduced? Almost all clerks: Bookkeeping clerks, accounting clerks, auditing clerks, mail mail, account management clerks, payroll clerks. "Complementarity" vs "exposure": Judges are highly protected, their clerical work will be displaced. A lot of roles in finances: Finance, insurance, banking services. Another heavily impacted cluster is marketing: Professional sales, advertising, retail sales, cashier, telemarketer.
I'm surprised they didn't mention writers and artists, which is what it seems like other people talk about, and the jobs most obviously "in the crosshairs" of generative language models and generative image models.
Not impacted: Environmental services, natural resources, construction, teaching, health care.
In fact, education and health care are areas of tremendous growth.
The research papers seemed not in agreement as to what "social jobs" would grow vs displaced. One thought child care workers as well as social workers would be displaced, while another thought all "social jobs" would increase. Maybe there is "clerical" work in the social work field that could be automated that I'm not aware of?
What jobs do the researchers think will increase the most? AI researcher. And jobs like business intelligence and information security analyst that possibly could use AI skills.
