ChatGPT creator says AI advocates are fooling themselves if they think the technology is only going to be good for workers: 'Jobs are definitely going to go away'
and that instead, they should be more worried about their co-workers using these technologies to supplant them.
"You will not be replaced by AI but by someone who knows what to do with AI," Oded Netzer, a Columbia Business School professor, previously toldBut Altman's comments speak to the harsh reality: Even if most jobs aren't displaced, some are likely to go by the wayside. In March,forecasted that 300 million full-time jobs across the globe could be disrupted — not necessarily replaced — by AI.
"History tells us that simplification is often merely a step towards automation," Carl Benedikt Frey, an Oxford economist, previously told ."AI assistants that analyze telemarketers' calls and provide recommendations are being trained with the ultimate goal of replacing them.", however. Altman told The Atlantic that he expects better — perhaps higher-paying jobs — will be created in place of the ones that are disrupted. The question, however, is whether displaced workers will be able to navigate their way to these new gigs.
Ethan Mollick, an associate professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, pointed to the late-19th century automation of telephone operators — then a common profession for women — as an example of workers struggling to"When you got rid of operators, then basically young women were able to adjust, find new jobs and were able to adapt," he said.
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