"AI was always supposed to automate dangerous, dirty tasks - not the things we want to do."īut one white-collar skill set, the study found, is especially at risk for being automated: computer programming. "We didn't think that would be the case," says Ethan Mollick, a professor of management at Wharton who studies innovation. The researchers also noted two patterns among the most vulnerable jobs: They require more education and come with big salaries. Their conclusion: 19% of workers hold jobs in which at least half their tasks could be completed by AI. Researchers at OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, recently examined the degree to which large language models could perform the 19,000 tasks that make up the 1,000 occupations across the US economy. Much has been written about how AI is coming for white-collar jobs. Those who have been doing the automating fear they will soon be automated themselves. Policymakers scrambling to futureproof the workforce stuck to one unwavering message: Learn to code! But in recent weeks, behind closed doors, I've heard many coders confess to a growing anxiety over the sudden advent of generative AI. Universities rushed to expand their computer-science programs. Even as new gizmos replaced other jobs, the people who wrote the instructions for the machines felt untouchable. A lot of the knowledge that I thought was special to me, that I had put seven years into, just became obsolete."Ĭoding, as an occupation, has long been considered a haven from the relentless advance of technology. "I had an existential crisis right then and there. "I never thought I would be replaced in my job, ever, until ChatGPT," he says. It didn't take him long to wonder what this meant for a career he loved - one that had thus far provided him with not only a good living and job security, but a sense of who he is. Whatever he threw at it, Hughes found that ChatGPT came back with something he wasn't prepared for: very good code. Then he quizzed it with the kind of coding questions he asks candidates in job interviews. So he signed up for an account and asked ChatGPT to program a modified tic-tac-toe game, giving the game some weird rules so the bot couldn't just copy code that another human had already written. But Adam Hughes, a software developer, was intrigued by artificial intelligence's much-ballyhooed aptitude for writing code. When ChatGPT was released to the world in November, most of us marveled at its ability to write rap lyrics and cover letters and high-school English essays.
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