AI Can Already Do the Work of 12% of America's Workforce, Researchers Find (msn.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/29/1737204/ai-can-already-do-the-work-of-12-of-americas-workforce-researchers-find
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-can-already-do-the-work-of-12-of-america-s-workforce-mit-study-says/ar-AA1Re4XQ?ocid=BingNewsVerp
> Artificial intelligence can do the work currently performed by nearly 12% of America's workforce, according to [2]a recentstudy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The researchers, relying on a metric called the "Iceberg Index" that measures a job's potential to be automated, conclude that AI already has the cognitive and technical capacity to handle a range of tasks in technology, finance, health care and professional services. The index simulated how more than 150 million U.S. workers across nearly 1,000 occupations interact and overlap with AI's abilities...
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> AI is also already doing [3]some of the entry-level jobs that have historically been reserved for recent college graduates or relatively inexperienced workers, the report notes. "AI systems now generate more than a billion lines of code each day, prompting companies to restructure hiring pipelines and reduce demand for entry-level programmers," the researchers wrote. "These observable changes in technology occupations signal a broader reorganization of work that extends beyond software development."
"The study doesn't seek to shed light on how many workers AI may already have displaced or could supplant in the future," the article points out.
"To what extent such tools take over job functions performed by people depends on a number of factors, including individual businesses' strategy, societal acceptance and possible policy interventions, the researchers note."
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-can-already-do-the-work-of-12-of-america-s-workforce-mit-study-says/ar-AA1Re4XQ?ocid=BingNewsVerp
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25137
[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-artificial-intelligence-jobs-workers/
can it find dupes? (Score:3)
If it can find dupes, editors will have a harder time justifying their roles
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[1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/27/0752210/ai-can-technically-perform-12-of-us-labor-markets-wage-value-mit-simulation-finds
Replace Slashdot Editors (Score:2)
Can we replace Slashdot editors with AI.
Zero intelligence to very limited intelligence would still be a significant improvement.
Re: (Score:2)
Stealing other people's work is the entire basis of AI, they do what /. editors do by definition.
Dupe (Score:2)
[1]https://news.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
[1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/27/0752210/ai-can-technically-perform-12-of-us-labor-markets-wage-value-mit-simulation-finds
If your replacing programmers with today's AI. (Score:2)
The company better be performing rigorous code reviews and have a well developed Dev, QC/Testing, Production environment setup.
They can move to Commi Venezuela (Score:2)
Oh wait... the US continues its mission to hunt and topple communists/socialist governments worldwide. Sanctions didn't work so now the military goes in. Plans in work to transfer Venezuela assets to US oligarchs.
> The latest US attacks will likely end up increasing support for the Venezuelan government, because it will make it clear that there are only two realistic options: either Maduro or a right-wing US puppet — like the US government-funded far-right coup leader María Corina Machado, whom Was
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Any form of system that centralize the power too much ends up being a failure, including "free market" capitalism.
But you're not even allowed to think on it, as soon you start to design anything new, they will just toss you on the commie bucket and enforce it as "the opposite system". gotta avoid letting someone that know what a truck is (communism and socialism actually predate trucks) from creating a better, fairer system.
Entry level jobs ? (Score:5, Insightful)
If you replace entry level jobs with AI, such as entry level programming jobs, then where will experienced programmers come from ? Where will they get their experience ?
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"...where will experienced programmers come from ?"
Whatever's left. Experienced programmers will be the next jobs replaced. The question will be who's left to determine if the work is done well and who will care. It only matters that billionaires profit and everyone else suffers. What programming is even needed for that?
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I think we have to train students in "big pictture" thinking, and let AI work out the implementation details.
I don't think AI is yet ready to gather requirements, clarify ambiguities and fill holes, spot inconsistencies, and prioritize (often a political choice). End users often don't know precisely what they want, and are often warty of technical solutions and change. That takes a lot of ego stroking and feather unruffling. Can AI do that? Nah-uh. Not for quite a while yet, anyway.
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This is the end, my friend.
I was close to retirement anyway. There isn't going to be another generation of people with the skills I have outside of hobbyists. They're just not needed anymore.
In that case (Score:2)
We should expect to see 12% cut from openai and all its outsource contracts then, right?
Google AI (Score:3)
[1]https://imgur.com/a/ixGTMJW [imgur.com]
Google AI thinks sunrise where I live is around 3pm
[1] https://imgur.com/a/ixGTMJW
AI replacements (Score:2)
I would like to see a list of those AI replacements. Yes you can put AI on a contact us line and replace people but does the consumer get a better experience? I use to the press 1 for english 2 for spanish, NOW we need press 1 for human, 2 for robots. Short term replacement is easy, but lets wait until one of the AI bots really screw something up and the lawyers get involved.
Very incomplete analysis (Score:2)
The analysis claims to have covered the skills of 150 million workers in 1,000 jobs. I'd be willing to bet that the analysis didn't cover *every* skill required for even *one* of the jobs.
For example, take the job "receptionist." That's typically an entry-level job that requires skills like answering the phone, taking messages, greeting visitors, and so on. But did the analysis also cover the need for a receptionist to sometimes prevent a visitor from just walking into the offices without knowing their purp
Are the researchers? (Score:5, Interesting)
Part of that twelve percent?
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I want to know who these "researchers" are by name and where their funding comes from.