AI in US – The American worker and the future of work

Addressing some of generative AI’s emerging risks for which society’s response is far less developed, especially risks to livelihoods.

• Existing generative AI technology already has the potential to significantly disrupt a wide range of jobs. We find that more than 30% of all workers could see at least 50% of their occupation’s tasks disrupted by generative AI.
• Unlike previous automation technologies that primarily affected routine, blue collar work, generative AI is likely to disrupt a different array of “cognitive” and “nonroutine” tasks, especially in middle- to higher-paid professions.
• Despite the high stakes for workers, we are not prepared for the potential risks and opportunities that generative AI is poised to bring.
• The report emphasizes the importance of developing strategies to proactively shape AI’s impact on work and workers. This includes fostering worker engagement in AI design and implementation, enhancing worker voice through unions or other means, and developing public policies that ensure workers benefit from AI while mitigating harms such as job loss and inequality.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story @  Generative AI, the American worker, and the future of work