AI might not steal your job, but it could change it

In a report released this week, Goldman Sachs predicted that AI advances could cause 300 million jobs, representing roughly 18% of the global workforce, to be automated in some way. OpenAI also recently released its own study with the University of Pennsylvania, which claimed that ChatGPT could affect over 80% of the jobs in the US. The numbers sound scary, but the wording of these reports can be frustratingly vague. "Affect" can mean a whole range of things, and the details are murky. People whose jobs deal with language could, unsurprisingly, be particularly affected by large language models like ChatGPT and GPT-4.