The mainstream attention around artificial intelligence (AI) has brought reasonable fears about the impact of an even more pervasive form of automation in the workplace and the threat to jobs. Public engagement with ChatGPT caught the public imagination, but as users found it eerie how much an email written by the AI program sounded like a human wrote it, they started to wonder what other office tasks AI could offload from a human worker.
The demand for AI-focused employees also jumped as every company started to look at how they could integrate AI tech into their operations. AI will reshape the workforce in the coming years, and here are just a few ways in which it has already impacted hiring and the general workforce. The promise of AI will bring with it massive career shifts, much like those that happened when general automation shifted many blue-collar jobs in the 1970s and 1980s. What labor machines did for blue-collar jobs, AI will do to white-collar jobs, according to expert