{"id":1989,"date":"2023-07-19T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dexian-brasil.website-in-dev.co.uk\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2024-07-20T01:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:48:59","slug":"is-ai-coming-for-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brasil.dexian.com\/en\/blog\/is-ai-coming-for-your-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI Coming for Your Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have read that generative artificial intelligence \u2013 as in ChatGPT — has \u201calready\u201d directly resulted in job loss for a few people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let the panic begin? After all, further down in the article linked to above, is this quotation:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe technology\u2019s ability to churn out human-sounding prose puts highly paid knowledge workers in the crosshairs for replacement, experts said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, thankfully, that may not happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re not kidding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or, as another expert quoted in the article put it,<\/p>\n

\u201cThink of AI as generally acting as a high-end intern,\u201d he said. \u201cJobs that are mostly designed as entry-level jobs to break you into a field where you do something kind of useful, but it\u2019s also sort of a stepping stone to the next level \u2014 those are the\u00a0<\/strong>kinds of jobs under threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, we can\u2019t predict the future (even AI can\u2019t), yet many experts believe AI will enhance our jobs.<\/p>\n

Of course, \u201ccertain roles are more vulnerable than others,\u201d said one expert, \u201cespecially ones that are highly repetitive or based on very specific instructions or rules that lay out what needs to be done<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, disruption is inevitable. After all, look at what desktop computers did to the secretary job: no longer did a manager need someone to take dictation and write up a letter. Instead, the manager could do so him\/herself, resulting in the massive loss of secretarial jobs.<\/p>\n

However\u2026how many administrative assistants do you know? These professionals now perform many tasks once associated with secretaries, yet at an extremely high level.<\/p>\n

Or, as one opinion piece from a fan of AI has put it (long paragraph ahead):<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are other reasons to be skeptical about grim forecasts regarding AI and employment. First, many past predictions about technologically induced unemployment were wrong because, as noted in <\/em>a\u00a0new R Street Institute report on the history of automation fears<\/em><\/a>, we often lack the imagination to describe future jobs or worker skills. A review of old government labor market forecasts or economic papers finds no mention of today\u2019s hottest jobs or skills.\u00a0<\/em>Glassdoor\u2019s 2022 best jobs list\u00a0<\/em><\/a>includes job titles such as: full stack engineer, enterprise architect and machine learning engineer. These jobs would not have been comprehensible to analysts or economists in past decades.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The opinion piece does admit that jobs will be lost, but that doesn\u2019t mean government \u2013 nor business, nor workers \u2013 need to sit back and watch their worlds collapse:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo better prepare the workforce of the future, policymakers can use a mix of policies to enhance STEM education, tax deductions for retraining, better online learning programs, technical recertification programs, portable benefits solutions and vocational apprenticeship models. It is equally important that lawmakers <\/em>relax barriers to labor mobility and employment flexibility<\/em>, especially occupational licensing rules.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

(And there\u2019s nothing stopping any of us from contacting policymakers to get this conversation going\u2026.)<\/p>\n

The bottom line, in our opinion, is that AI will mean big changes, but it needn\u2019t mean millions of people will be out of work<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Just as with the advent of the desktop computer, positions will open up of which no one can yet conceive: there is <\/strong>the true possibility that better jobs \u2013 and better-paying ones \u2013 will open up to us.<\/p>\n

Of course, that may\u2014or may not \u2013 be in the future. What about now?<\/p>\n

Here is how AI can impact our jobs now in positive and more fulfilling ways:<\/strong><\/p>\n