Regarding fields at risk from AI, I first started looking up some previous CC threads on the topic that might help to provide an initial response.
Below are posts 52 & 53 from this thread about [ChatGPT and the Future of Colleges]ChatGPT and the Future of Colleges ) that might be helpful:
Here’s a short piece (maybe written by AI) that provides a more fulsome list:
ChatGPT: the 10 Jobs Most at Risk of Being Replaced by AI
For those who don’t like to click, the following are listed as vulnerable:
Tech (coders, programmers, software engineers and data analysts)
Media (advertising, content creation, tech writing and journalism)
Legal (paralegals and legal assistants)
Market research analysts
Teachers
Finance (analysts and personal financial advisors)
Traders
Graphic designers
Accountants
Customer service agents
My zone is heavy on accountants, finance people, lawyers and paralegals. If I were to rank order the risk, I would put accounting at or near the top. We’ve already written several bots that eliminate X number of FTEs, and we’re not close to doing anything like that in the other functions. There is A LOT of low hanging fruit in the accounting profession in my opinion. The Big 4 employ people at six figure salaries to work on audit teams who, at the more junior levels, get paid to do pretty low level work. The mid- to more senior level managers aren’t immune either. Especially given their reliance on data sampling, it is not inconceivable that the entire audit staff can be AI’d at some point, though the government will have to say that’s OK before it can happen. There will certainly be corporate pressure because nobody likes paying the auditors. Finance and the paralegals are a little less clear to me, but I can see some room for AI there. Lawyers are little further off IMO because starting pretty early on in one’s career judgment is involved. But no doubt there are legal functions that can be AI’d.
This thread also starts off with an article from the Wall Street Journal about AI’s impact on programmers: WSJ: What Will AI Do to Your Job? Take a Look at What It’s Already Doing to Coders
In the first Business Insider article quoted by @cquin85 , data analysts was in the first batch of jobs listed as vulnerable, and market research analysts and finance analysts are also listed further down.
Now, what I found elsewhere will be shared in my next post…
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