New research shows that machine learning will likely replace tasks within jobs, not whole occupations. Credit: MIT Sloan School of Management The conversation around artificial intelligence and automation seems dominated by either doomsayers who fear robots will supplant all humans in the workforce, or optimists who think there’s nothing new under the sun. But MIT Sloan professor Erik Brynjolfsson and his colleagues say that debate needs to take a different tone.
New research finds that specific tasks within jobs , rather than entire occupations themselves, will be replaced by automation in the near future, with some jobs more heavily impacted […]
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