AI Is the Next Workplace Disrupter--and It's Coming for High-Skilled J…

The most vulnerable occupations include marketing specialists, financial advisers and computer programmers--jobs that tend to pay high wages and skew toward male, white and Asian workers, a recent study from the Brookings Institution found. Other jobs most vulnerable to being affected by AI included certain types of engineers, optometrists, graphic designers, software developers and sales managers. New technology in the workplace has generally been better for higher-skilled workers than for the lower-skilled, said Mark Muro, one of the study's authors. "Artificial intelligence could play out just the opposite." While machines have long been able to perform repetitive physical tasks or complex mathematical calculations, AI enables computers to analyze data, predict outcomes, learn from experience by recognizing patterns and make decisions.