AI and its Effect on Jobs

This article is an ongoing cumulation of opinions and articles about this subject. We hope you find it useful.

Can you imagine if HR was totally run by an AI? It looks like the Human Resources department may need a name change.

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“A survey from Resume Builder released last summer found that by 2024, four in 10 companies would use AI to “talk with” candidates in interviews. Of those companies, 15% said hiring decisions would be made with no input from a human at all.” The Guardian

This article is an ongoing cumulation of opinions and articles about this subject. We hope you find it useful.

“A survey from Resume Builder released last summer found that by 2024, four in 10 companies would use AI to “talk with” candidates in interviews. Of those companies, 15% said hiring decisions would be made with no input from a human at all.” The Guardian

November, 2024

eWeek - Exploring Artificial Intelligence Career Paths: Opportunities in 2025

But one thing is clear: AI technology’s technical, ethical, and regulatory complexity calls for an equally diverse set of skills and responsibilities, from prompting and programming to research and ethical oversight. Here’s what you need to know about 13 of the most promising AI career paths in this burgeoning field, including critical skills, learning pathways, and earning potential.

Harvard Business Review - Research: How Gen AI Is Already Impacting the Labor Market

We find that the introduction of ChatGPT and image-generating tools led to nearly immediate decreases in posts for online gig workers across job types, but particularly for automation-prone jobs. After the introduction of ChatGPT, there was a 21% decrease in the weekly number of posts in automation-prone jobs compared to manual-intensive jobs. Writing jobs were affected the most (30.37% decrease), followed by software, app, and web development (20.62%) and engineering (10.42%).

Forbes - The Third Wave Of AI Is Here: Why Agentic AI Will Transform The Way We Work

This transformation is already sparking the emergence of exciting new positions like AI agent trainers, AI workflow orchestrators, and AI ethics compliance officers. While this vision is compelling, the reality may prove more nuanced - as with previous technological revolutions, some routine roles may be automated entirely while others evolve, creating a hybrid environment where humans both orchestrate and collaborate with their AI counterparts.

Information Week - Building an Augmented-Connected Workforce

"These technologies add a level of intelligence and efficiency for employees by providing skills that humans don’t possess while allowing workers to focus on higher level, strategic work." In general, augmented-connected workforces allow for a more dynamic, connected work environment that prepares human team members to work seamlessly with high technology devices.

eWeek - Top 10 AI-Proof Jobs: Start Securing Your Career’s Future Today

While artificial intelligence (AI) aids diagnostics, pediatric care requires empathy, a deep understanding of child psychology, and real-time adaptability to different developmental stages. Pediatricians also form long-term relationships with families, giving care and building trust, which AI cannot replicate. The nuanced nature of child health—particularly in assessing nonverbal cues and handling family dynamics—keeps this role grounded in human expertise.

The Algorithmic Bridge - So, Yeah, AI Is Already Taking Our Jobs

After the introduction of ChatGPT, there was a 21% decrease in the weekly number of posts in automation-prone jobs compared to manual-intensive jobs. Writing jobs were affected the most (30.37% decrease), followed by software, app, and web development (20.62%) and engineering (10.42%). . . . Additionally, we noticed that over time, there were no signs of demand rebounding.

Newsweek - AI Could Conduct Your Next Job Interview

"The leap to AI-led interviews was only a matter of time," Nyman told Newsweek. However, he added that job interviews are inherently personal, requiring the kind of nuanced interpersonal skills that current AI still struggles to interpret.

Forbes - 71% Of AI Workforce Is Men, Just 29% Are Women — How Do We Fix This?

“I’ve seen firsthand how AI is fundamentally reshaping every industry. When women represent only 15-34% of AI talent across experience levels, we're not just looking at a gender gap — we're looking at systematically excluding half our workforce from the future of work itself. This is especially concerning because AI will be the foundation of virtually every industry moving forward. The cost of inaction here isn't just about equality — it's about global competitive advantage and real human potential we're leaving untapped,” explained McCoy.

Diginomica - Are you over the AI hype yet? Desk workers are. Slack global research exposes harsh realities of workforce adoption

For example, despite one of gen AI’s most frequently cited areas of functional application supposedly being empowering support, only a third of desk workers (34%) say they’d be comfortable telling their boss they used AI to resolve support tickets, while the same percentage wouldn’t want to admit that gen AI helped them to write outreach content and emails for them. Given that this is supposedly what brings value from gen AI to the organization - and is what the budget holders are looking for - we have a problem here.

Forbes - What CEOs Aren’t Telling Their Teams About AI

AI tools cost $99 a month. A full-time employee costs $5,000. Your manager's doing that math right now. Company updates used to brag about headcount growth. Now they brag about efficiency gains and AI-powered scaling. Translation? Doing more with fewer people.

Harvard Business Review - Research: How Gen AI Is Already Impacting the Labor Market

We find that the introduction of ChatGPT and image-generating tools led to nearly immediate decreases in posts for online gig workers across job types, but particularly for automation-prone jobs. After the introduction of ChatGPT, there was a 21% decrease in the weekly number of posts in automation-prone jobs compared to manual-intensive jobs. Writing jobs were affected the most (30.37% decrease), followed by software, app, and web development (20.62%) and engineering (10.42%).

Forbes - AI: Your Career's Silent Killer

The allure of AI-powered shortcuts is undeniable. From crafting emails to analyzing complex datasets, AI tools promise to handle our most tedious tasks with remarkable precision. But this convenience comes with a hidden cost. When we consistently delegate our cognitive heavy lifting to AI, we risk weakening the very skills that make us valuable in the workplace.

VentureBeat - Knowledge workers are leaning on generative AI as their workloads mount

A recent Thomson Reuters report found that the average knowledge worker expects AI to save them four hours per week — which, the data says, is the equivalent of adding an extra colleague for every 10 employees.

Information Week - The Current Top AI Employers

Amazon currently leads the pack with 1,525 AI-related employees, primarily operating in the e-commerce and cloud computing sectors, according to data from WilsonHCG’s talent intelligence and labor market analytics platform. Meta follows closely with 1,401 employees, while Microsoft is next with 1,253 employees in AI-related roles.

eWeek - Prompt Engineering Job Market: Job Prospects, Salaries, and Roles

A prompt engineer specializes in crafting and molding text prompts for interacting with AI models. They focus on developing prompts that elicit error-free, relevant responses, ensuring that AI-generated content aligns with user needs and business goals. A prompt engineer’s main objective is to optimize prompt performance through continuous testing and collaboration with cross-functional teams—including data scientists and product managers—to enhance overall AI system efficacy.

Forbes - How To Get Started In AI Even If You Don't Have Technical Skills

The best way to acquire new skills is to apply those techniques and knowledge right away. That’s why I encourage our team members to find ways to incorporate new AI tools and applications into their normal workflows, even if it requires building a bit of slack into their schedules during the learning process

CSO - Enterprises look to AI to bridge cyber skills gap — but will still fall short

“Human talent will always be the fulcrum of the work we do, but the facts are that we have a huge dearth of skills that needs to be filled, and gen AI has the potential to bridge the gap. The technology can be an indispensable ally, automating the routine and allowing human experts to focus on the strategic manoeuvres that will mitigate against the ever-evolving threat landscape.”

October, 2024

GeekWire - AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias

The UW researchers tested three open-source, large language models (LLMs) and found they favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time, and female-associated names 11% of the time. Over the 3 million job, race and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.

VentureBeat - Unleash the power of data, AI agents and humans to transform CX

The stakes are high: globally, poor customer experiences cost organizations $3.7 trillion annually — an increase of $600 billion from last year. According to our 2024 AI and Customer Service Index, only 50% of people believe AI has improved service in recent years. As we look ahead to 2025, it’s clear that customer service is still broken, and the traditional approaches aren’t delivering. New answers are needed, and those answers lie in the powerful fusion of data, AI and humans.

Forbes - How AI Could Be Detrimental To Low-Wage Workers

By 2030, generative AI could potentially take over tasks that currently make up as much as 30% of work hours across the U.S. economy, a McKinsey report found. Moreover, employees in lower-paying positions face a risk up to 14 times higher of becoming obsolete compared to those in the highest-paying jobs, with most requiring additional training. Additionally, women are at a 50% higher likelihood of needing to change occupations than their male counterparts.

The Verge - Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind

In an interview with The Verge, Costin said that he “isn’t aware” of any plans for Adobe to launch products that don’t include generative AI for creators who prefer to manually complete tasks or oppose how AI is changing the creative industry.

VentureBeat - ServiceNow advocates for ‘invisible’ AI agents to ease worker adoption

Beyond AI agents quietly working in the background, Zilbershot said it’s essential for organizations to understand that agents are not assistants. If not, they risk setting an expectation to users that they will need to learn how to prompt agents instead of letting them work for them autonomously.

Forbes - 4 AI-Powered Strategies For Your Ultimate Job Search

In the digital age, your resume often meets AI before it reaches human eyes. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) powered by machine learning algorithms are the new gatekeepers of the hiring process. To ensure your application makes it past these digital sentinels, you need to speak their language.

Forbes - What Does AI Means For Your Career, And How Can You Adapt?

In the face of this new reality, it's vital to envision how AI may impact your career. Does it have the potential to put your position, employer or industry in jeopardy? If so, how can you protect your future? These four steps can help you make the right decision as this technology continues to disrupt job markets.

Forbes - Are Programmers Hired To Help AI Learn To Write Code Being Traitorous To Software Developers Everywhere?

If you look at the numerous open jobs for many AI makers, you’ll find a job classification that at first glance seems entirely innocuous. The job title is something along the lines of being a code labeler or perhaps some listings might claim the work consists of being a code tutor. The reality is that the people getting the job are going to focus on aiding the training of AI to generate code.

Forbes - The Impact Of Microsoft's New AI Employees On Your Job

Unlike traditional AI assistants that simply respond to commands, these new autonomous agents can independently initiate and complete complex business tasks. Through Microsoft's Copilot Studio, organizations can create AI employees that handle everything from qualifying sales leads to managing supplier communications. These agents don't just follow predetermined scripts – they analyze situations, make decisions, and take action without human intervention.

Forbes - The AI Advantage: Why Return-To-Office Mandates Are A Step Back

From automating routine tasks to providing detailed insights into data trends, AI is helping companies become more efficient, effective and competitive. Rather than relying on opinions or preferences, companies should make decisions about work arrangements based on data-driven insights just like they do about everything else. It includes analyzing employee productivity, satisfaction, and turnover rates under different work models.

Rolling Out - The AI revolution: 5 future jobs to prepare for now

AI ethicist: The moral compass of machine learning

As AI systems become more ubiquitous and influential, the need for ethical oversight grows. AI ethicists ensure that these powerful tools are developed and deployed responsibly, tackling issues like data privacy, algorithmic bias, and the societal impact of AI.

Forbes - As Tech Layoffs Continue, Companies Need To Own What’s Happening

Employees deserve to understand the broader context of what's happening. For example, Dell could have started by transparently communicating the scale of the layoffs and the reasoning behind them. Rather than the vague excuse of getting leaner, the company might've said, "We're implementing AI solutions that will impact 6,500 roles. This decision is driven by the need to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving tech landscape."

Bloomberg - AI Can Only Do 5% of Jobs, Says MIT Economist Who Fears Crash

As promising as AI may be, there’s little chance it will live up to that hype, Acemoglu says. By his calculation, only a small percent of all jobs — a mere 5% — is ripe to be taken over, or at least heavily aided, by AI over the next decade. Good news for workers, true, but very bad for the companies sinking billions into the technology expecting it to drive a surge in productivity.

ZDNET - Want to work with AI? Make sure you level up your domain expertise

"It is essential to have domain experts or humans in the loop to verify AI suggestions -- an approach aptly summarized as 'Machine Suggested, Human Verified.' Effective human oversight requires clear monitoring roles and transparency in AI models for easy interpretation."

TechRepublic - Red Hat: AI Is the Most In-Demand Skill in the UK for 2024

“This means enterprises are moving from what they are currently doing with analytics, data science and statistical modelling to something new. We are seeing a lot of interest in AI demos and tests without really knowing where the key value will come from yet.”

High ROI Data Science - Will AI Take Your Job? Deconstructing Job Descriptions To Understand What Roles Are Most Vulnerable

On the other hand, many jobs considered critical today don’t deliver much value or require complex capabilities. The better businesses understand how people create value, the more these roles will disappear or be automated. The AI Product Manager is a good example, and that’s where I’ll start.

Forbes - Why You Shouldn’t Be Replaced By AI, Even By Someone Using It

AI has demonstrated a remarkable capacity to push creative boundaries, mimicking the exploratory process of human creativity in unexpected ways. One of AI's key advantages in the creative realm is its ability to analyze vast amounts of data quickly, finding patterns, correlations, and combinations that might be too complex for humans to detect.

Diginomica - Learnings from the 2024 HR Technology Conference

Beyond those material issues, HR professionals are also pointing out that a number of unqualified persons are getting others to do screening interviews for them, are taking professional examinations for them, are finding AI-created answers to your firm’s interview questions online, etc. These fraudsters are getting past the recruiting process and creating significant issues for operations personnel. HR then has to clean up the matter all while better, more authentic people are not getting promoted or hired.

AiThority - AI and Its Biggest Myths: What the Future Holds

One of the most common fears about AI is that it will lead to widespread job losses. It’s true that AI can automate certain tasks, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to replace human workers entirely. In reality, AI is more likely to change the nature of work rather than eliminate jobs altogether, and its impact on productivity is truly remarkable. This means that those who choose not to learn how to harness AI in business could get left behind if their industry increases adoption of the tech tool.

BIGDATAWIRE - Gartner: GenAI Will Require 80% of Engineering Workforce to Upskill Through 2027

“Bold claims on the ability of AI have led to speculation that AI could reduce demand for human engineers or even supplant them entirely,” said Philip Walsh, Sr Principal Analyst at Gartner. “While AI will transform the future role of software engineers, human expertise and creativity will always be essential to delivering complex, innovative software.”

ZDNET - The 4 biggest challenges of AI-generated code that Gartner left out of its latest report

The research report Gartner is promoting with its press release is titled "AI Will Not Replace Software Engineers (and May, in Fact, Require More)." That is a premise I wholeheartedly agree with -- at least for the next decade or so.

September, 2024

ZDNET - Networks of collaborative AI agents will transform how we work, says this expert

The agents become "digital teammates", according to Shah. The agents.ai network is a marketplace to find which agents can do which tasks, "see what their experience is, whether they'd be a good fit or not" based on the feedback of users of agents.

VentureBeat - Onboarding the AI workforce: How digital agents will redefine work itself

Today’s AI systems help improve processes, but their future lies in taking over more complex roles. In sectors such as customer service, logistics and project management, AI agents will manage routine tasks, while providing human workers with real-time insights and analysis. With its ability to handle complex tasks, the new “o1” model from OpenAI will further advance this capability.

ZDNET - How to level up your job in the emerging AI economy

As a result of this transformation, Athey said technology professionals need to rethink their roles and careers. "I think that coding has gotten easier. My students at Stanford are probably writing 80% of their code using Copilot," she said. "It's good at finding syntax errors and writing tedious code. Knowing a particular language is less important. I coded in like 10 different languages since I started my career."

Forbes - Study Suggests Limits To Generative AI’s Job-Snatching Abilities

Zero percent of the jobs studied were considered “very likely” to be replaced by AI. “Human work skills won’t be easily replaced in the workforce any time soon,” the study’s authors believe. “Today’s generation of genAI tools are not ‘very likely’ to replace a competent human worker in mastering and performing even a single one of thousands of common work skills identified by Indeed.”

404 Media - AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now

“As someone who has interviewed upwards of 50 candidates for prior roles, human connection and interaction is the single most important indicator of how a team will mesh and jive together. If an AI is running the early stage process, it eliminates potential candidates because of its algorithmic design,” he said. “It shows how executives and corporations are further trying to cut costs on the human side of business.”

ZDNET - 73% of AI pros are looking to change jobs over the next year

Regarding any downturns in tech hiring, "what we found tells a more nuanced story," the study's authors explained. "As expected in a tough climate, the economic outlook among tech professionals is more negative than in previous years. Equally concerning, many of them feel their bargaining power slipping away and are reluctant to take risks."

Network Computing - HP Survey: Concerns About AI in the Workplace

Sixty-six percent of knowledge workers used AI in 2024, up 28 points from 2023. For business leaders, 88% have used AI, a jump of 20 points, while 91% of IT decision-makers have used AI this year, a rise of 28 points. If you look at AI usage by knowledge workers according to their demographic generation, younger workers are the biggest users of AI, while older workers use AI the least.

Diginomica - AI fast becoming a young male preserve, suggests workplace research

According to Cypher Learning, men and senior management are likely to use AI and enjoy experimenting with generative tools, while women are not. There is an age factor in play too, with the over-55s far less likely to use the technology than younger employees.

Fast Company - Gen AI won’t take your job—the person who knows how to use it will

Right off the bat, it’s crucial to understand the limitations of AI, in and out of the workplace, and align on goals and best practices. AI, particularly large language models (LLMs) and Generative AI (Gen AI), can perform remarkable feats when it comes to processing and generating natural language, images, and audio, but they are far from autonomous entities. AI requires constant monitoring, fine-tuning, and human judgment to function effectively.

Data Science Central - (Trying to) Quantify the Economic Impact of GenAI

We have been vocal about my belief that organizations focusing on GenAI-driven productivity improvements rather than GenAI-driven innovation improvements are missing the bigger prize. GenAI tools can create value for an organization, but that increase in value is inconsistent. On one hand, GenAI tools can improve the productivity (efficiency) of below-average workers. On the other hand, they can significantly boost the innovation (effectiveness) of top-performing workers who better understand critical value-creation concepts such as data science, design thinking, and economics.

Forbes - The Automation Takeover: Are Software Engineers Becoming Obsolete?

“Today, systems can deploy 10 times the volume of processes at higher rates, But the core business abstractions didn't change. We began building more distributed services. So, every developer right now is distributed system engineer... And it means that the life of developers got harder because you don't have transactions anymore. You need to call all these APIs. Consistency is a problem.”

eWeek - How to Become a Prompt Engineer (2024): The Path to Success

To become a prompt engineer, you need to develop skills in composing clear and effective prompts for AI software and applications. The role involves analyzing tasks, identifying key information, and iteratively refining prompts to align with specific business objectives. By optimizing prompts, AI engineers help organizations unlock the full potential of AI tools.

Forbes - How To Use AI To Find A Job

AI can help identify skills you need to develop for your desired role and suggest learning resources. Based on those recommendations you can then register for LinkedIn Learning or Coursera to up-skill your areas for development.

Data Science Central - How machine learning is delivering next-generation talent acquisition processes

By monitoring their social media activity, online profiles, and studying their given career interests, ML can help recruiters identify passive candidates for opportunities to reach out or to build a talent database that can be monitored for future availability.

Fast Company - AI-enabled hiring discrimination, and what CEOs should do to avoid it

But that’s not the most worrisome liability to organizations. In my view, the most worrisome would be choosing not to use AI. Companies that avoid AI will ultimately be left behind and put out of business. Mark my words.

VentureBeat - Have we reached peak human?

First, I predict yes, at least one foundational AI model will be released in 2024 that can outthink more than 50% of adult humans on pure reasoning tasks. From this perspective, we will exceed my definition for peak human and will be on a downward path towards the rapidly approaching day when an AI is released that can outperform all individual humans, period.

Computerworld - AI to create better products and services, add $19.9T to global economy — IDC

Along those lines, Goldman Sachs has projected that as many as 29% of computer-related job tasks could be automated by AI, as well as 28% of work by healthcare practitioners and technical tasks in that field. Careers with the highest exposure to AI automation are administrative positions (46%) and tasks in legal (44%) professions.

Diginomica - Dreamforce 24 - AI, the future of work, and those Klarna comments

In February, Klarna unveiled an AI-powered assistant for customer service, developed in partnership with OpenAI, that it claims can perform the work of 700 customer service agents, reducing the average resolution time from 11 minutes to two, which in turn has boosts average revenue per human staffer by 76%.

Forbes - How You Become Irreplaceable In The Age Of AI

Being AI-ready is about more than just understanding how to use the latest AI tools. It's about developing what Bornet calls "AI literacy" – the ability to stay updated on AI advancements, understand their impact on our jobs, and critically evaluate the benefits and risks. It's also about learning to use AI ethically and effectively, augmenting our abilities rather than replacing them.

ZDNET - Meet Agentforce, Salesforce's autonomous AI answer to employee burnout

When asked how Salesforce anticipates Agentforce will affect certain roles (or make them obsolete), VP of Product Marketing Sanjna Parulekar told ZDNET she thinks the technology will create more roles. "We did this exercise on my team to think through, if we had a limitless workforce within marketing at Salesforce, what would we do with it? We thought of 10 different jobs of people that we need on our team."

Salesforce - New Research Identifies 5 Types of People Defining the AI-Powered Future of Work

Slack’s new Workforce Lab research explores what motivates workers to use AI and how they feel about using it at work. Through in-depth interviews and a survey of 5,000 full-time desk workers, the research uncovered five distinct AI personas that employers need to understand as they implement AI and bring workers onboard “The AI Team” — a workplace where humans and AI agents work successfully side-by-side

Forbes - Embracing The Power Of Human And AI Collaboration To Create New Opportunities

By leveraging business AI, employees can focus on more strategic and creative tasks, while the technology handles repetitive and time-consuming work. I firmly believe that the rise of business AI presents a unique opportunity to harness the power of human-AI collaboration, ultimately leading to increased productivity, innovation, and job satisfaction.

TechBullion - Artificial intelligenceAutomation vs. Human Expertise: Will CSM Tools Replace Customer Success Managers?

Prominent controversies surrounding this topic include the rigidity and adaptability of automation systems, the complexity of integrating these tools with existing infrastructure, and the potential overreliance on technology, which could lead to communication gaps and unrealistic expectations[6]. Additionally, there are concerns about data management, employee resistance, and security risks associated with the adoption of these technologies

Computerworld - Will genAI kill the help desk and other IT jobs?

Along those same lines, a survey of CFOs in June by Duke University and the Atlanta and Richmond Federal Reserve banks found that 32% of organizations plan to use AI in the next year to complete tasks once done by humans. And in the first six months of 2024, nearly 60% of companies (and 84% of large companies) said they had deployed software, equipment, or technology to automate tasks previously done by employees, the survey found.

InfoWorld - Junior developers and AI

Generative AI has filled the world with code. Unfortunately, enough of it is bad code that you’re still going to need experienced developers who can fix the errors introduced by genAI. But what about junior developers? What’s their role in a world awash in machine-generated code that, at least in theory, renders less experienced developers less valuable?

GeekWire - Artificial intelligence tools offer substantial benefits, challenges for hiring and recruiting

AI-powered bots such as ResumeRabbit enable candidates to apply to multiple positions rapidly, while AI-driven platforms provide simulated interview experiences to help candidates refine their skills.  

Geeky Gadgets - AI Job Loss Statistics – 47% of U.S. workers are at risk of job loss

The perceptions of business leaders regarding AI’s impact are mixed but significant. About 25% of CEOs anticipate that generative AI will lead to job cuts of 5% or more in 2024. A substantial 75% of CEOs believe that generative AI will bring about significant changes in their businesses within the next three years. Furthermore, 44% of companies planning to implement AI expect it to result in layoffs in 2024.

ZDNET - AI 'won't replace' creative skills, study finds

The relatively swift adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across industries has shaken up the job market. College students and recent grads are trying to navigate the fast changes as much as mid- and late-career professionals. A new report from Canva examines how schools can best prepare students for the shift -- namely by emphasizing creativity.

Advisor.ca - Finance jobs face acute AI threat

In a report, the national statistical agency estimated that 31% of Canadian workers have jobs that are highly exposed to AI disruption because they involve tasks that may be replaced by AI, while another 29% are in jobs that are both exposed to AI and could benefit from the technology. The other 40% of jobs aren’t considered to be exposed to AI.

VentureBeat - 71% of leaders prefer hiring candidates with AI skills over those with the relevant industry experience

In it, he wrote, “Our AI assistant now performs the work of 700 employees, reducing the average resolution time from 11 minutes to just 2, while maintaining the same customer satisfaction scores as human agents.”

August, 2024

ZDNET - Agentic systems and synthetic voices: The AI job-takeover timeline

Initially, AI will continue to augment human labor, or what we see today: time saved, opportunities opened. Not linearly, but eventually -- in roughly five years, according to Afshar -- AI will be able to perform some roles currently overseen by humans. Afshar lays out his recommendations for businesses and HR teams navigating these changes.

Forbes - Creating The Universal AI Employee Of The Future

"I would see that a large portion of the work that people are doing, all of us are doing, is kind of repetitive. It's tedious. It's a little bit soul-crushing." This observation has led many in the tech industry, including Chatterjee, to ask: "With the technological advances we are seeing today, can we actually automate everything?"

VentureBeat - Nvidia’s ‘Eagle’ AI sees the world in Ultra-HD, and it’s coming for your job

Eagle’s performance gains in visual question answering and document understanding tasks also point to broader applications. For instance, in e-commerce, improved visual AI could enhance product search and recommendation systems, leading to better user experiences and potentially increased sales. In education, such technology could power more sophisticated digital learning tools that can interpret and explain visual content to students.

eWeek - Will AI Replace Humans? Job Security Explored

Some jobs are more likely to experience AI disruption than others, with those consisting mainly of rote tasks more at risk. Some white collar jobs are already seeing AI integrated into their workflows, while jobs that require complex physical movements and human judgment—think plumbing or construction—are unlikely to be replaced by AI anytime soon. And jobs that require social and emotional skills, like teaching and social work, may never be. So, will artificial intelligence replace humans at work? No one can be sure, but here’s everything you need to know to form your own opinion.

Diginomica - Cisco's AI strategy - some thoughts on workforce impact

The report looked at seven ICT job families, that between them account for around 80% of ICT roles. It concludes that the skills that will become increasingly relevant include responsible AI/ethics, AI literacy, Large Language Models, agile methods and data analytics. Skills that will become less relevant include basic programming, content creation, data management, research and document maintenance.

VentureBeat - How agentic AI platforms will redefine enterprise applications

This trend will most likely affect white-collar productivity in the way that mass production boosted labor productivity. Our expectation is that ultimately, intelligent, agent-based systems will be able to complete many common business processes with 1/10th of the headcount required today.

ZDNET - Six levels of autonomous work: How AI augments, then replaces

New companies very soon will be AI natives, meaning that they simply will not hire humans in the first place except when they have to. These companies will probably show the rest of us where humans are still valuable and where they're not, and we'll follow suit (some faster than others).

VentureBeat - AI and employment: Echoes of the past or a new paradigm?

While this could indeed be the outcome, it is also conventional wisdom, and it might be decidedly wrong. That is because AI’s impact on jobs may be far more disruptive than previous technological revolutions, as it can be used to outsource cognitive tasks potentially leading to more significant and widespread job displacement than previous innovations.

Information Week - https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/the-search-for-solid-hires-between-ai-screening-and-genai-resumes

With job applicants in need of work and hiring managers anxious to find the right fit for their companies, is AI hurting or helping the process? Before this flood of AI-generated applications, there was plenty of talk of using AI to sort through potential hires -- is more AI needed to deal with GenAI resumes?

ZDNET - Welcome to the AI revolution: From horsepower to manpower to machine-power

The second reason AIs will not replace humans any time soon is the time it takes our institutions to understand and embrace the capabilities of proven technology. We saw this most clearly in 2020 when school districts and businesses had to cease operations during the coronavirus pandemic because they had not yet implemented full online operations despite the capabilities being in existence for 15 years or more.

Computerworld - EY exec: In three or four years, ‘we won’t even talk about AI’

“I view AI skills as adjacent, additive skills for most people — aside from really hardcore data scientists and AI engineers. This is how most people will work in the new world. Generally, it depends. Some organizations have built whole, distinct AI organizations. Others have built embedded AI domains in all of their job functions. It really depends. There’s a lot of discussion around whether companies should have a chief AI officer. I’m not sure that’s necessary.”

VentureBeat - Tech workers who adopt a “wait and see” approach to AI will be left behind in the jobs race

“AI, however, isn’t just a social media platform, and it’s not just impacting a limited demographic. It’s overhauling how work is done and requires more than just training sessions. It requires adopting a ‘systems thinking’ way of looking at your daily tasks. Within organizations, that kind of fundamental shift must come from the top-down.”

AiThority - Humanoid Robots And Their Potential Impact On the Future of Work

Despite their potential, humanoid robots face considerable implementation challenges. Unlike traditional robots, which are engineered for specific tasks, humanoid robots must achieve versatile and reliable movements, which involves intricate engineering. Advances in AI, particularly in computer vision and natural language processing, are crucial in overcoming these obstacles.

Insight. - Tech workers and young people will need a major skills upgrade if they are to keep up with AI

Entry-level and mid-level ICT professionals are at the forefront of this AI transformation with 40 per cent of mid-level positions and 37 per cent of entry level expected to see high levels of transformation. The report also claims a 323 per cent increase in the demand for AI-skilled talent over the past eight years, backing up a previous study by the World Economic Forum showing that 58 per cent of employees will see significant changes in their roles in the next five years due to AI and big data advancements.

Information Week - 10 Hottest AI Jobs

In business and management, for instance, 62.5% of roles were identified as high transformation and 37.5% as moderate. In day-to-day work, AI can help create product strategies, provide predictive analytics, develop reports, manage large-scale projects and automate numerous processes.

July, 2024

Smart R AI - Myth buster: will AI take over all the jobs?

Developing countries may not have the infrastructure or skilled workforces to harness the benefits of AI. While this means these economies will face fewer disruptions to their workforces, it also risks worsening inequalities between developed and developing countries. AI preparedness indexes, such as the IMF’s, can help countries craft the right policies to ensure they have the right digital infrastructure, human-capital and labour market policies to deal with the impact of AI on their country.

VentureBeat - Tech giants: AI will transform 92% of ICT jobs; we must upskill now

Workers will need new (and enhanced) skills in ML, prompt engineering, proprietary AI design, Scikit, data analysis and interpretation, product design and even lean manufacturing, the consortium urges. Skills that are beginning to go by the wayside, meanwhile, include basic coding, manual content creation and research.

yahoo! - Business Insider - The tech industry wants to create an AI utopia. Its leaders think Universal Basic Income is the answer.

"But if we really do get AI technology that can replace intellectual human labor at scale, we're going to have to think of new approaches to ensure that economic gains are really evenly distributed."

The Hill - Insider Q&A: LinkedIn is bullish on AI. Will that help job seekers?

But we’re also seeing a gap right now in AI proficiency. When we talk to leaders, 80% of them – across industries – say they know it’s really important for them to adopt AI in their companies. But most of them don’t know how to do it. They lack the confidence, and the skill set, to actually bring it to the fold.

The Express Tribune - AI to replace 85 million jobs by 2025: WEF report

The report also estimated that the shift in work division between people, robots, and algorithms would result in the creation of around 97 million new positions in the labor market. Several high-profile companies have recently announced plans to increase the use of automation and AI, resulting in workforce reductions.

VentureBeat - Developers aren’t worried that gen AI will steal their jobs, Stack Overflow survey reveals

Polk noted that gen AI coding tools can help developers in their day-to-day efforts. He sees it as a “Better Together” approach in terms of gen AI development tools and sites like Stack Overflow. For example, Polks said that AI-code completion and generator tools paired with deep context and knowledge tools like Stack Overflow provide a powerful combination

eWeek - Annual AI Jobs Salary Report (2024): Overviews with Expert Advice

Specialized Knowledge Beats Experience: Microsoft and LinkedIn’s 2024 Work Trend Annual Report showed that 71 percent of leaders would hire a less-experienced candidate with AI skills over a more-experienced one without them. This statistic emphasizes the growing importance of AI skills in recruitment and career advancement, positioning AI knowledge as a notable asset in today’s competitive workforce.

Forbes - The Synergy Of Humans And AI Is Reshaping The Workforce For The Future

In addition, enterprises expect increased innovation. By analyzing data and trends, AI can identify opportunities for innovation that might not be immediately apparent to humans. When people use AI to guide their explorations, they can push the boundaries of creativity, leading to breakthroughs in products, services, and processes.

FEDSCOOP - White House announces nearly $100 million in pledges to boost emerging tech workforce

Academic institutions including San José State University, Spelman College, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan and New York University have pledged material support, new centers, new scholar opportunities with provided tuition and other assistance, collaborations with justice organizations and local governments and collaborations to support inner-institution growth in tech.

techradar - The additional role tech teams are taking on: AI Prompt Engineers

This approach gives teams more time to spend on solving challenging problems and bringing their experience to bear, as the basics are now streamlined. In essence the use of AI prompts serves a dual purpose: it alleviates the time burden on technical teams and enhances their capacity to innovate. By automating the more routine aspects, engineers can focus their expertise on improving the overall user experience for the end client.

ZDNet - Home Tech Security Will AI take the wind out of cybersecurity job growth?

"This is not a positive or negative measure, just recognition of the fact AI plays a role, be that dealing with AI-driven attacks, or working with AI-based tools such as automated monitoring applications and AI-driven heuristic scanning," the report's authors stated. "Add to the above those who believe that AI will impact their job in the near future, and we see that more than eight in 10 (88%) expect AI to significantly impact their jobs over the next couple of years."

yahoo!tech - Tech workers look like the real winners of the AI talent war

Those with experience in machine learning, engineering, and deep learning are securing impressive salaries. The median total compensation for a machine learning or AI software engineer is $140,823, according to Levels.fyi.

VentureBeat - Gen AI takes over finance: The leading applications and their challenges

A recent Gartner survey revealed that 66% of finance leaders believe generative AI will have the most immediate impact on explaining forecast and budget variances. This aligns with the view that AI will augment rather than replace human workers. However, a study by Citi suggests that up to 54% of jobs in banking have a high potential for automation, higher than in other industries. This dichotomy highlights the uncertainty surrounding AI’s role in finance, with the reality likely falling somewhere between total job replacement and mere productivity enhancement.

June, 2024

ZDNet - We need bold minds to challenge AI, not lazy prompt writers, bank CIO says

There's a valuable lesson to anyone hiring or seeking to get hired for AI-intensive jobs, be it developers, consultants, or business users. The message of this critique is that anyone, even with limited or insufficient skills, can now use AI to get ahead or appear to look like they're on top of things. Because of this, the playing field has been leveled. Needed are people who can provide perspective and critical thinking to the information and results that AI provides.

Forbes - 10 Sectors Where AI Will Add – Not Eliminate – Jobs

AI-powered adaptive learning platforms, virtual tutors, and personalized learning experiences will require new mind sets in educators, instructional designers, and AI trainers. This will also facilitate education to a billion people around the globe, which will bring along reductions in poverty and illness.

CIO - Extensive AI use makes employees lonely, nervous

“Interactions with AI made them more efficient and capable of doing much more work, but at the same time left them feeling lonely, which resulted in employees being more likely to resort to alcohol and suffer from insomnia,” the study said, adding that these were “telltale and worrying signs of social malaise and ill-being, which research shows have negative impacts on quality of life, mood, cognitive function, behavior, and health overall.”

Forbes - Generative AI As A Killer Of Creative Jobs? Hold That Thought

While’s Murati’s remarks were framed within a context that AI is helping to boost creative pursuits, that’s not how many read it. The pushback was fast and furious. “OpenAI’s mission is to create AGI that can replace people in every viable economic activity. Killing jobs is the end goal,” wrote Dare Obasanjo in an X post.

Forbes - What Job Is Most Safe From AI?

Skilled tradespeople, such as electricians and carpenters, possess hands-on expertise and problem-solving skills that AI cannot replicate. These roles require working in varied environments, adapting to unique challenges, and applying practical knowledge in real-time. The physical dexterity, spatial awareness, and on-the-spot decision-making needed in these trades make them resilient to automation. While AI can assist with tools and planning, the nuanced skills of a tradesperson remain irreplaceable.

BBC - AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human

By 2024, the company laid off the rest of Miller's team, and he was alone. "All of a sudden I was just doing everyone's job," Miller says. Every day, he'd open the AI-written documents to fix the robot's formulaic mistakes, churning out the work that used to employ dozens of people.

Analytics Insight - Why You Should Consider a Career in Artificial Intelligence?

Constant Learning and Innovations: Artificial intelligence as a subject of study is itself emerging in nature. By the very nature, you will be introducing a new technology with AI; you will always remain at the forefront of state-of-the-art approaches and be current with science. The nature of the field is such that it assures continuous learning accompanied by personal growth.

ZDNet - What's stranger than AI? These new job roles - with titles that are so TBD

Wanted: Bias Buster? Prompt Whisperer? Reality Check Officer? Across industries, demand is surging for a range of new roles to tame the AI beast.

ZDNet - AI's employment impact: 86% of workers fear job losses, but here's some good news

"This isn't something to be afraid of," she told ZDNET. "The only thing we should be afraid of is if we continue to be the person who says, 'Oh, I don't need it. It's not going to impact me.' Those are the people whose jobs will be impacted negatively."

ZDNet - From AI trainers to ethicists: AI may obsolete some jobs but generate new ones

"Understanding how to implement trusted AI, including building solutions that are ethical, explainable, de-biased, stable and legally compliant will be important as LLMs and generative technologies become more integrated into critical business processes."

Tech Startups - Microsoft-owned GitHub lays off 80% of its employees in India

Addressing concerns that AI might challenge Indian IT giants as businesses automate traditionally outsourced tasks, Dohmke expressed a more optimistic view. He believes AI will elevate Indian IT companies to new heights rather than disrupt them. “We’re dealing with an ever-growing amount of software in the system. No company I’ve encountered deletes more code than they write each day; the complexity keeps increasing,” he said.

Information Week - The Impact of AI Skills on Hiring and Career Advancement

Some 32% of survey respondents indicated AI and machine learning were among their top three skills for career advancement, up from 14% who responded in kind the prior year. (It was the number one response.) However, the response to skills that were the most important to doing their jobs, soft skills such as training and managing staff ranked at the top.

Computerworld - Afraid AI will steal your job? You’re not alone

The survey results are backed by financial services market predictions that AI could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs. According to a 2023 report by investment bank Goldman Sachs, two-thirds of all jobs could be partially automated by AI. “If generative AI delivers on its promised capabilities, the labor market could face significant disruption,” Goldman reported. “And… generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work.”

Forbes - 5 Remote Entry-Level AI Jobs That Pay Up To $180,000 In 2024

And if you are part of the graduating class of 2024, you can leverage your expertise within computer science, mathematics, or other related field to pursue these five entry-level AI jobs that are becoming more in demand as the AI implementation phase progresses.

ZDNet - Want an AI Job? Check out these new AWS AI certifications

While the top positions demand esoteric skills, such as knowing how to program with OpenCV, PyTorch, and TensorFlow, there are also jobs out there for people who aren't computer scientists. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is opening the doors for you and me with a suite of training courses and new certifications

Forbes - 3 Remote, High-Paying AI Jobs You Can Get Without A Degree In 2024

Another shocking reality, although perhaps not surprising given the trend within STEM industries, is that, according to Slack's Workforce Index report for 2024, "there’s an AI gender gap emerging, and it’s largest among Gen Z. While young people are most likely to have experimented with AI tools, Gen Z men are 25% more likely to have tried AI tools compared with Gen Z women," the report's findings stated.

Data Science Central - AI Dividend, Universal Basic Income, and Economic Multiplier Effect

Unfortunately, AI is also likely to displace many workers during that transformation. The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2025, 85 million jobs may be displaced by AI.[1] Many jobs may be eliminated, while others may be downgraded to lower-skilled positions (Figure 2).

May, 2024

Computerworld - Job seekers and hiring managers depend on AI — at what cost to truth and fairness?

The darker side to using AI in hiring is that it can bypass potential candidates based on predetermined criteria that don’t necessarily take all of a candidate’s skills into account or they can contain hidden biases based on how they were trained by their creators. And for job seekers, the technology can generate great-looking resumes, but often they’re not completely truthful when it comes to skill sets.

Forbes - How Generative AI Will Change The Jobs Of Computer Programmers And Software Engineers

Does this mean that software developers are now redundant? Well, No! Human expertise will still be essential for creative problem-solving challenges and overcoming problems with AI that will likely be around for some time. Instead, I believe humans will leverage generative AI to speed up their work and help them develop new, more efficient solutions, making their skills even more valuable in business and industry.

Information Week - The AI Skills Gap and How to Address It

Reuters reports that this year there will be a 50% hiring gap for AI-related positions. Some 60% of IT decision makers think AI constitutes their largest skills shortage. A 2022 Deloitte survey indicates that there are a mere 22,000 AI specialists globally. Equinix found that 62% of IT decision makers view these types of shortages as a major business threat. And a Redhat survey of IT leaders found that 72% thought AI skill gaps needed to be urgently addressed.

Forbes - The Future Of Work Is New Collar Jobs, So Are You Ready?

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is not just transforming existing jobs but is also giving birth to a new category of employment: new collar jobs. This term, first coined by IBM’s former CEO Ginni Rometty, refers to roles that may not require a traditional college degree but instead prioritize skills, often technical, acquired through nontraditional education paths such as vocational training, coding boot camps, or on-the-job learning

eWeek - AI Jobs Salary Guide 2024

Machine learning, because it already has so many practical applications, is generally considered to be one of the fastest growing job titles in the AI landscape. Salary increases can come quickly with experience in advanced skills like machine learning frameworks.

Yahoo!Finance - AI isn’t coming for your job—at least not yet

In recent months, shipping giant UPS announced plans to cut 12,000 office jobs that CEO Carol Tomé said were unlikely to return because the company was increasingly using AI to automate tasks these workers performed. Meanwhile, financial giant BlackRock said it would eliminate about 600 positions, couching the cuts as an effort to prepare for coming shifts in the asset management industry, of which AI is among several drivers.

eWeek - 10 Best AI Career Path Considerations for 2024: Securing a Future in AI

“The AI consultant is currently one of the most sought-after professionals when it comes to artificial intelligence jobs/careers. AI consultants are responsible for supporting businesses and other organizations in implementing AI. Responsibilities include everything from managing implementation projects to ensuring AI solutions are compatible with an organization’s needs.”

April, 2024

GeekWire - Generative AI is a dual concern for cybersecurity industry — and will drive increased labor demand

“When you understand and think about technology enveloping us like never before, and more and more of our life depends upon it, you can easily make the case that 5 million cybersecurity professionals is a drop in the bucket,” Reavis said.

ZDNet - Do employers want AI skills or AI-enhanced skills? That could depend on you

"People in this field must be comfortable using Copilot to code faster and more efficiently, Looking ahead, there are other tools coming out that will allow a solutions architect to describe a problem -- or even an idea for how to solve a problem -- to an AI platform, and it will produce an elastically scalable and implementable diagram."

Business Insider - Revolutionizing the Workforce: Pyjam Avatar's Innovative Platform Combats AI Job Displacement

This platform allows companies to hire "avatars" - real people in various locations around the world, ready to perform tasks remotely through their smartphone cameras. This concept mirrors the Uber model, where anyone with the app can become a driver.

Information Week - Dispelling the Myth of Job Displacement: AI and Transformation

In my role, I can learn from and talk to many customers about how to reframe the AI narrative in their respective workplaces. I encourage them to start by positioning the “A” in AI as augmentation rather than artificial -- meaning that there’s always a human in the loop, as people generate better outcomes. This view strikes a chord with the greater workforce because it shows the value of the worker, and it also helps people realize that every job can be disaggregated into bundles of tasks. Some tasks are more suited for enhancing with AI while others are suited for eliminating or handing over.

ZDNet - Tech giants hatch a plan for AI job losses: Reskill 95 million in 10 years

Of course, many of those cuts are driven by the AI innovations that ICT participants developed. And while consortium members acknowledged that lost jobs are a reality -- and that many jobs will be replaced entirely by AI -- they're hoping that upskilling and reskilling support will help workers find new careers in other roles.

Computerworld - Is AI driving tech layoffs?

I’ve been working with genAI for a while now. I’ve used all the major platforms and none of them — none —- are ready to replace anyone’s work yet. They’re great at half-assing jobs, some can be useful aids for productive work, but taking someone’s place? I think not.

Diginomica - HR, meet AI - everything changes...perhaps

The study pointed out that HR could most benefit from the technology in three key areas: recruitment, learning and development, and talent management. It also revealed that nearly 25% of organizations have already introduced generative AI for hiring purposes, making it the top area for adoption to date. A further 30% also plan to implement it in the next 24 months.

Forbes - The Future Of Human Resources In The Era Of Artificial Intelligence

To thrive in this new era as an HR professional, you must cultivate a deep understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations. Seek opportunities for education and training in AI and data analytics, network with AI experts, attend industry conferences and participate in relevant forums. This can provide you with valuable insights and inspiration.

March, 2024

ZDNet - This year's top 8 use cases for AI, and what tech professionals need to support them

Organizations need people with the skills to design, build, deploy, secure, and maintain such applicators -- and 46% of respondents say they need more of these people. That demand includes software developers with AI expertise (44%), machine-learning engineers (42%), data analysts (41%), data engineers (41%), and data governance and security specialists (40%).

The Wall Street Journal - The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams

Databricks, a data storage and management startup, doesn’t have a problem finding software engineers. But when it comes to candidates who have trained large language models, or LLMs, from scratch or can help solve vexing problems in AI, such as hallucinations, Rao says there might be only a couple of hundred people out there who are qualified.

Computerworld - Most in-demand skills for 2024 — hint, genAI is at the top

“The decreasing shelf life of technical skills, and emergence of ... genAI, has resulted in many technology professionals who are currently navigating the job market needing to further invest in continuous upskilling, not only to land their next role, but to remain competitive in the years to come.”

sdxCentral - AI leadership and engineering jobs rising fast

“Your data infrastructure can make or break any investment in this technology, and it’s a struggle business leaders are quickly realizing,” the ZoomInfo report states. “Mismanaged databases, a CRM riddled with holes, or outdated information feeding your algorithms can result in costly, irreparable damage that’s extremely tricky to not only catch, but fix.”

Computerworld - Q&A: Udemy online education exec on tech layoffs and skills needs

Udemy just launched a GenAI Skills Pack aimed at providing professionals across software engineering, data science, sales, marketing, finance, and HR with dedicated learning paths so they can upskill on genAI content specific to their job duties for immediate impact.

VentureBeat - Accenture’s $1 billion LearnVantage platform tackles the growing AI skills gap

As demand for generative AI skills skyrockets, with 94% of workers wanting to learn but only 5% of companies providing training at scale, Accenture LearnVantage is well-positioned to help clients meet this challenge. “We are experiencing tremendous interest from senior leaders especially who want to be educated on GenAI capabilities so as to make appropriate decisions for GenAI applications and fund appropriate programs,” Durg noted.

American Enterprise Institute - Navigating the Future of Work: Perspectives on Automation, AI, and Economic Prosperity

Instead of resorting to conflictual relationships, labor unions in the US must work with employers to support firm automation while simultaneously advocating for worker skill development, creating a competitive business enterprise built on strong worker representation similar to that found in Germany.

The Washington Post - Transcript: The Futurist Summit: The New Age of Tech: Managing Economic Disruption

And how quickly we adopt technologies in the workplace is going to impact the disruption to the workers that exist. There are, of course, solutions, and as academics, we're always working to the future. We don't educate people for today. We educate people for four years, six years, ten years hence, so that they're prepared for the world as it becomes.

Computerworld - The future of work looks like sci-fi

The Augmented Connected Workforce (ACWF) is a concept or a paradigm where advanced technologies are used to give employees what essentially amount to super powers. Specifically, the idea envisions integrating workers with Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, AI tools of every description, wearable sensors, wearable communication tools, IoT, robots, exoskeletons, machine vision and cloud computing.

Computerworld - AI to create a half billion new jobs — here’s why

Mark Kashef, an AI consultant and prompt engineer on Fiverr, an online freelance marketplace, believes genAI will create jobs that today can’t even be imagined. Areas such as AI development, data analysis, and AI ethics are all fields likely to see a boom because of genAI adoption.

startupdaily. - Job interview analysis platform Sapia launches generative AI chatbot to explain its hiring decisions

Melbourne recruitment startup Sapia.ai has launched a generative AI model it’s called SAIGE to give candidate feedback. It uses the platform’s large language model (LLM) capabilities developed over six years, to evaluate candidates using a blind chat interview, then deliver comprehensive scoring along with a set of job-related competencies, including explanations for its assessments, with the ability coach candidates as to how they can improve, or say what it was looking for to give a higher score for a particular skill or trait.

AiThority - CareerBuilder Unveils AI Hiring Trends Whitepaper

“AI in hiring is now mainstream and here to stay,” said Kelley. “Employers should consider adopting AI technology to stay competitive. They should also start formalizing AI policies and guidelines, find ways to balance AI with human interaction, and think through roles so that human team members are delivering the most impact.”

IEEE Spectrum - AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead

However, new research suggests that prompt engineering is best done by the model itself, and not by a human engineer. This has cast doubt on prompt engineering’s future—and increased suspicions that a fair portion of prompt-engineering jobs may be a passing fad, at least as the field is currently imagined.

Inc. - An Analysis of 5 Million Job Postings Showed These Are the 3 Jobs Being Replaced by AI the Fastest

These studies are not only often contradictory but also generally based on observations of small sets of carefully chosen workers in specific situations. They may tell you AI helps call center workers be more productive, or is causing one company to hire less customer service reps. But it seemed dangerous to draw wider conclusions on such an important subject from limited data.

TechBullion - The Future of Work: How Artificial Intelligence Training is Reshaping Industries

Contrary to the fear of job displacement, AI training is designed to augment human capabilities rather than replace them. The synergy between human expertise and AI proficiency creates a powerful combination, where AI handles mundane tasks, freeing up human workers to focus on higher-order thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. This collaborative approach enhances productivity and overall job satisfaction.

CNBC - IBM is slashing jobs in marketing and communications

“I think that’s a fair criticism, that we were slow to monetize and slow to make really consumable the learnings from Watson winning Jeopardy,” Krishna told CNBC in December. “The mistake we made was that I think we went after very big, monolithic answers, which the world was not ready to absorb.”

The Wall Street Journal - AI Is Taking On New Work. But Change Will Be Hard—and Expensive.

Companies are turning to generative AI for ever more sophisticated tasks—including work such as deciphering friction between colleagues at Cisco, once exclusively the domain of well-paid knowledge workers. This change is fueling predictions of workplace transformation—both ominous and optimistic.

The Guardian - The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’

A survey from Resume Builder released last summer found that by 2024, four in 10 companies would use AI to “talk with” candidates in interviews. Of those companies, 15% said hiring decisions would be made with no input from a human at all. 

ZDNet - Workers with AI skills can expect higher salaries - depending on their role

Employers also are willing to fork out 39% more to hire AI-skilled workers in sales and marketing as well as in business operations, while they will pay 37% more for those in finance.

Business Insider - AI may kill the one job everyone thought it would create

Prompt engineers write input data, often a block of text, that can produce a desired result from generative-AI tools such as ChatGPT. And for a brief moment, it looked like the next trendy tech job amid the boom of artificial-intelligence chatbots

Geekwire - AI’s trust problem: Richard Edelman on the risk from the tech industry’s rapid rollouts

But if we rush this, if we put it out in a way where government isn’t seen as being able to regulate because it can’t keep up, or if it’s seen as done without context where there’s reskilling or upskilling to take care of people whose jobs are going to end, then we’re going to have a populist reaction.

February 2024

ZdNet - Beyond programming: AI spawns a new generation of job roles

These kinds of adverts -- for job roles that were unheard of even a year ago -- are likely to become the norm in the AI era. While everyone in business wants to make the most of AI, it's going to take more than development or data science skills to make the most of emerging technology. There's a raft of responsibilities that are essential to AI efforts, from training algorithms to overseeing ethics.

Computerworld - The highest-paid IT skills — and why you need them on your resume

Job seekers need to keep up with the tech industry's new demands, which include changes stemming from the widespread adoption of genAI tools over the past year. While genAI will touch virtually every industry, tech will be affected the most.

Computerworld - Tech spending shifts to meet AI demand, forces a 'reshuffling of skills' for workers

“Layoff will continue as more ‘routine’ IT jobs are eliminated,” Janulaitis said. The first to go are help and service desks as AI eliminates those positions. Next, entry-level programmers will be eliminated as AI applications generate code, he said.

Yahoo!Finance - Humans Still Cheaper Than AI in Vast Majority of Jobs, MIT Finds

In one of the first in-depth probes of the viability of AI displacing labor, researchers modeled the cost attractiveness of automating various tasks in the US, concentrating on jobs where computer vision was employed — for instance, teachers and property appraisers. They found only 23% of workers, measured in terms of dollar wages, could be effectively supplanted. In other cases, because AI-assisted visual recognition is expensive to install and operate, humans did the job more economically.

January 2024

SiliconANGLE - MIT study shows AI is still too costly to replace most human workers

The report’s surprising finding was that just 23% of workers’ wages for such jobs could be cost-effectively replaced by AI systems. “Even with a 50% annual cost decrease, it will take until 2026 before half of the vision tasks have a machine economic advantage,” researchers wrote. “By 2042 there will still exist tasks that are exposed to computer vision, but where human labor has the advantage.”

Computerworld - GenAI set to replace these jobs, disrupt others — and worsen economic inequity

While those trends might appear ominous, the study also found that about half the jobs affected by AI and genAI could benefit from enhanced productivity. For the other 50%, however, genAI tools could be used to execute tasks now done by humans, which could lower labor demand, lead to lower wages and reduce hiring.

Geekwire - AI’s trust problem: Richard Edelman on the risk from the tech industry’s rapid rollouts

But if we rush this, if we put it out in a way where government isn’t seen as being able to regulate because it can’t keep up, or if it’s seen as done without context where there’s reskilling or upskilling to take care of people whose jobs are going to end, then we’re going to have a populist reaction.

ZdNet - Beyond programming: AI spawns a new generation of job roles

These kinds of adverts -- for job roles that were unheard of even a year ago -- are likely to become the norm in the AI era. While everyone in business wants to make the most of AI, it's going to take more than development or data science skills to make the most of emerging technology. There's a raft of responsibilities that are essential to AI efforts, from training algorithms to overseeing ethics.

December 2023

Information Week - Hot Jobs in AI/Data Science for 2024

It’s not a surprise that AI and data science professionals remain in demand given the explosion of AI models on the market, and the rapid-fire advancements since. But just as companies are still struggling to figure out business use cases for LLMs, they also struggle to identify corresponding job roles. To make matters worse, there are additional obstacles popping up along the way.

CIO Dive - There will be a surplus of tech workers by 2026, executives project

As executives work to infuse rapidly evolving AI into their technology strategy, the need for AI-savvy talent has increased. But the current state of demand won’t stay this high in the mid- to long-term, according to the survey.

CIO Influence - CIO’s Roadmap to Aligning AI with Organizational Culture and Operations

Forecasts from Gartner indicate that despite significant AI progress, the global job landscape will remain neutral by the end of 2026—neither experiencing a substantial decrease nor an increase.

November 2023

Information Week - The IT Jobs AI Could Replace and the Ones It Could Create

Simple, repetitive tasks are first in line for the application of AI. Basic data entry and processing functions are likely candidates. Likewise, entry level IT helpdesk and support roles, hardly strangers to automation, could be further shifted away from human workers to AI.

Computerworld - It’s time to take your genAI skills to the next level

The value of “complementarity” in some jobs is intuitive. Software engineers who excel at leveraging genAI tools are more valuable than those who don’t. But someone with genAI skills who lacks programming expertise won’t succeed at software development because letting AI write code that the user can’t understand doesn’t work. And someone who does programming but has no AI skills will struggle to keep up with an industry that’s using AI to accelerate and improve their work. The most hirable developer is one who combines programming and AI skills creatively and effectively.