OpenAI says 80% of workers could see their jobs impacted by AI.

OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, has crunched the numbers on different jobs' exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) – and those numbers are eye-opening. Using its latest machine learning language model (LLM), the recently released GPT-4, as well as human expertise, researchers investigated the potential implications of language models on occupations within the US job market. While the researchers stress the paper is not a prediction, they found around 80 per cent of the US workforce could have at least 10 per cent of their work tasks affected by GPTs, or Generative Pre-trained Transformers. Around 19 per cent of workers meanwhile could see at least 50 per cent of their tasks impacted. The paper, which was authored by researchers from OpenAI, OpenResearch, and the University of Pennsylvania, examines the « exposure » of work tasks to AI – « without distinguishing between labour-augmenting or labour-displacing effects ».