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Blue-collar industries safest from AI taking over human jobs: Microsoft study

Interpreters and translators, historians, passenger attendants, sales representatives of services, and writers and authors, were the most affected.

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Interpreters and translators, historians, passenger attendants, sales representatives of services, and writers and authors, were the most affected.

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Hannah Nightingale Washington DC
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A new study from Microsoft has revealed the top 40 jobs that are most vulnerable to workers being displaced by AI, and the 40 jobs deemed the most AI-proof. The study found that many jobs in blue-collar fields are the safest from AI.

The paper, titled "Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI," found that interpreters and translators was the job title that would be most affected by the use of artificial intelligence. Following that were historians, passenger attendants, sales representatives of services, and writers and authors.

Other jobs included in the top 40 of jobs most affected by AI were telephone operators, customer service representatives, telemarketers, brokerage clerks, journalists, mathematicians, editors, advertising sales agents, archivists, web developers, models, and more.

The job deemed the most AI-proof was dredge operators, followed by bridge and lock tenders, water treatment plant and system operators, foundry mold and coremakers, and rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators.

Other jobs on the top 40 most AI-proof were logging equipment operators, roofers, maids, motorboat operators, surgical assistants, cement masons and concrete finishers, dishwashers, ship engineers, automotive glass installers and repairers, embalmers, and phlebotomists.

The paper stated, "The current capabilities of generative AI align most strongly with knowledge work and communication occupations, though most occupations have at least some potential for AI collaboration. Occupations for which the potential is small or non-existent include those involving manual labor, operating machinery, or other physical activities."

In May, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the world’s most powerful AI companies, said that around half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the US could be eliminated by AI within the next five years. Dario Amodei said that unemployment would likely spike by 10 to 20 percent over the next five years as advancements in technology replace human labor in fields such as technology, consulting, and finance.
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