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Big Tech usually dismisses fears that AI kills jobs. Now it’s studying them.
Microsoft, Google, IBM, Cisco and others will produce a report on how AI might change tech jobs.
Unions including the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) are listed as “advisors” to the group. A study released in 2023 by the Pew Research Center said around 20 percent of American employees are in jobs with “ high exposure ” to AI, such as tax preparers, copywriters and web developers. They argue that though the tech might replace some jobs, it will overwhelmingly make existing workers more efficient by taking away drudge work like reading long documents or sorting through databases.
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