A New Stanford Analysis Reveals Who's Losing Jobs to AI

The researchers also found that employment is growing in professions where AI is used to augment workers rather than automate their tasks. For instance, workers who use AI to learn about topics or validate their work once completed seem less susceptible to being replaced than those who are asked to delegate entire tasks to AI. For Brynjolfsson, this is a sign that AI, if deployed shrewdly, could lead to positive economic results. "I think it's fair to say that technology has always been destroying jobs and always been creating jobs," he says. "If we want to create not just higher productivity, but widely shared prosperity, using AI to augment and not just automate work is a good direction to go." Brynjolfsson and Chandar say they used AI throughout the process of writing their aforementioned paper: to write code in order to process and clean the ADP data; to provide references with which they could check their claims; and "help with some of the writing," Chandar says.