“This will change our world.”
That’s Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ assessment of ChatGPT, a chatbot that gives strikingly human-like responses to user queries. Developed by San Francisco-based OpenAI and backed by Microsoft, it can collate information in seconds that would otherwise take hours to gather.
“Until now, artificial intelligence could read and write, but could not understand the content,” Gates said recently. “The new programs like ChatGPT will make many office jobs more efficient by helping to write invoices or letters.”
Those efficiencies will inevitably lead to job losses.
If you’re working as a cashier, customer service representative or bookkeeper, you might want to have a backup plan, because a new report from NetVoucherCodes pegs those as the top three occupations likely to be replaced by AI.
And if you live in California you’re in for a double whammy because it has the largest number of at-risk jobs, the analysis says.
NetVoucherCodes compiled data for 199 jobs from each state using usawage.com‘s Top 200 Popular Jobs for each state in 2022. ChatGPT was then asked for each job’s relative risk from AI, automation, and the likelihood of AI increasing each job’s productivity.
The report shows 321,900 California jobs are at high risk of being replaced by AI technology, while another 1.2 million jobs are at medium risk. In the realm of automation, more than 2 million Golden State jobs are at high risk and nearly 4 million are at medium risk.
Other states ranking high on both lists include Texas, New York, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
NetVoucherCodes lists the top 10 U.S. jobs at high risk of being replaced by AI:
- Cashier (more than 3.3 million)
- Customer service representative (more than 2.7 million)
- Bookkeeper (991,047)
- IT support technician (690,525)
- Billing clerk (477,349)
- HR assistant (384,826)
- Paralegal assistant (336,250)
- Compliance officer (334,340)
- Claims assessor (314,300)
- Executive assistant (304,678)
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