Artificial intelligence expected to have a big impact on white collar jobs 7wData

A new report by the Brookings Institution counters previous analyses showing less-educated, lower-wage workers would be most exposed to automation. Better educated, better paid white collar workers will be the most affected by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a newly releasedreport by the Brookings Institution. The report goes against previous findings of Brookings' and other research that shows less educated and lower-wage workers will be most impacted by robots. Stanford University researcher Michael Webb's approach was to take the text of patents to identify the capabilities of AI, and then quantify the extent to which each occupation involves these technologies. Webb used natural language processing to quantify the overlap between patent texts and job description text and came up with an exposure score for each job.