AI is coming for white-collar workers

"AI will be as central to the white-collar office environment as robotics has been to the production economy," said Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. "They'll fundamentally change what work is and what humans do. And no one gets a free pass." What's happening: A new analysis released Wednesday by Brookings overlaid the keywords in AI-related patents with job descriptions to get a more detailed understanding of which jobs are most likely to be affected by AI -- and where they are. The big picture: Much of the research assessing the workforce impact of these new technologies -- robotics, AI and machine learning -- lumps them all together under the bucket of automation.