![]() ![]() In many ways y our work output can be dissociated from your humanity when it is transmitted to your employer and customers via electronic means. The employer and coworkers often don't experience a remote worker as fully human but rather pixels on a Zoom screen or text messages on Slack. ![]() Many white-collar technology workers have resisted the return to office work over the past few years, removing themselves from physical interactions with co-workers and supervisors. The seeds of societal change planted during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically a demonstration that much knowledge work can be performed remotely, may have also accelerated the ultimate replacement of this type of work by AI. So, while some humans may be rendered redundant by AI, overall value in the economy could be increased, raising the question we posed earlier: who will see the economic benefits of AI and who will bear the costs? On a more positive note, the Goldman Sachs report believes AI could increase the total value of goods and services created worldwide by 7%. Meanwhile, they found the jobs with the lowest exposure to AI automation included those in cleaning and maintenance, installation and repair, and construction. ![]() The positions at greatest risk according to their report: administrative support, legal positions, and architecture and engineering jobs. And just this week (March 26, 2023), Goldman Sachs's Economics Research released a report predicting that two-thirds of US jobs are exposed to automation by AI and going on to state that it believes ~7% of current US jobs could be replaced by AI (which, based on a current US labor force size of 166 million, equates to 11.5+ million people - more than the population of the state of Georgia). ![]()
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