Can AI take away your job? MIT researchers say ‘AI job displacement will be substantial but…’
OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard, which can perform a variety of tasks with a single text prompt, these fears have become even more profound. What's more worrying is that even the creators of these technologies, such as OpenAI's Sam Altman, have previously suggested that the job market is unlikely to stay the same as generative AI technology improves.
Golman Sachs had previously estimated that AI could lead to the automation of around 25% of the global workforce in the coming years, while a McKinsey analysis found that nearly 50% of all work will be done by AI by 2025, TechCrunch reported. In addition, an analysis by the University of Pennsylvania, NYU and Princeton previously found that ChatGPT alone could impact nearly 80% of the workforce.
Now, a new analysis by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has analyzed not only if a job can be replaced by AI but also if it is economically feasible to automate such tasks. The 45-page study found that only 1.6% of worker wages in the US economy are capable of automation and only 23% of those tasks (0.4% of the total tasks) are feasible enough to automate.
Talking about the potential of new age AI technology, the study noted, "“Machines will steal our jobs" is a sentiment frequently expressed during times of rapid technological change. Such anxiety has re-emerged with the creation of large language models (e.g.
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