Some types of jobs are more at risk from AI, while others are less vulnerable. Microsoft has released a list of the “Top 40 professions or jobs most likely to be impacted by AI.
As mentioned in the company’s research report, interpreters, historians, passenger attendants, sales representatives, and writers are among the top 5 professions most at risk from AI. This means that these jobs are the most insecure due to automation driven by artificial intelligence.
In a report titled “Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI”, an analysis was done on a dataset of 200,000 anonymous and confidential conversations between users and Microsoft Bing Co-Pilot AI software.
Who is more and who is less at risk from AI?
The report determined that the most common tasks for which people use AI are collecting and writing information. The report states, “The most common activities done by AI are providing information and assistance, writing, teaching, and offering advice.”
Among the top 40 jobs that use AI the most, the top five were: interpreters and translators, historians, passenger attendants, sales representatives, and writers. Additionally, customer service representatives, computer numerical control tool programmers, telephone operators, ticket agents, travel clerks, and broadcast announcers and radio DJs were ranked 6th to 10th.
The 10 jobs that used AI the least were those requiring active physical activity and medical knowledge, followed by blue-collar or manual labor jobs. These included phlebotomists (healthcare professionals who draw blood from patients), nursing assistants, hazardous materials removal workers, and painters/plasterers.
The report also noted, “We found the highest scores for the use of AI in knowledge-based workgroups such as computer and mathematics, office and administrative support, as well as business jobs like sales, which involve activities like providing information and communication.”
The report also determined the relationship between AI usage and factors like success rates, salary, and education, and how predictions of professional AI impact align with real-world usage. This report will also help in the expansion of AI in the coming days.
