Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Steal Your High Paying Job, Experts Warn

For years, breakthroughs in automation have led to increasing instability for blue collar workers -- particularly those in manufacturing -- while those in white collar positions have remained mostly unfazed by the same anxieties. Until generative AI's breakthrough, that is. In what appears to be the first major, technology-driven shakeup to the white collar marketplace, artificial intelligence could well be poised to replace human workers in higher-paying, college-degree-requiring jobs. "Before, progress was linear and predictable. You figured out the steps and the computer followed them," MIT professor David Autor, an expert on employment and technological change, told The Atlantic's Annie Lowery.