After decades of industrial robots, factory layoffs, and outsourcing, automation has finally arrived in the cubicle. A recent Wall Street Journal article spotlighted how the new “robots for the mind”—the complex algorithms and language models of generative AI—are creating rising uncertainty in the professional class.
In the past, automation has generally been more of a concern for blue-collar workers, especially those in the manufacturing sector. However, multiple recent studies suggest generative AI, with its emphasis on language tasks, means some of the work done by people who make their living with words (whether writing, coding, or coordinating people) may find […]
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