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Original title: Danger! ChatGPT, these 10 major occupations may lose their jobs first

When ChatGPT came out, many people were afraid that their jobs would be replaced by AI. Recently, foreign media have taken stock of the top 10 high-risk positions most likely to be replaced by ChatGPT.

Since its release last November, OpenAI's ChatGPT has been used to write cover letters, create children's books, and even help students cheat.

Chatbots may be more powerful than we think. Google found that, in theory, if the bot were interviewed at a company, search engines would hire it as an entry-level coder.

Amazon employees who tested ChatGPT said it did a "very good" job answering customer support questions,"great" at producing training documents and "very strong" at answering queries around corporate strategy.

Recently, Insider worked with experts to compile a list of the most risky jobs to replace with AI.

1. Technical jobs (programmers, software engineers, data analysts)

Coding and computer programming are skills in short supply, but ChatGPT and similar AI tools have the potential to fill some gaps in the near future.

Anu Madgavkar, a partner at McKinsey Global Institute, said technical jobs such as software developers, web developers, computer programmers, coders and data scientists are "fairly acceptable" for AI technology to "replace more of their jobs."

This is because artificial intelligence like ChatGPT is good at calculating numbers in a relatively accurate way.

In fact, advanced technologies like ChatGPT can generate code faster than humans, which means work can be done with fewer employees.

Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said a job that required a team of software developers may now require only a few people.

Tech companies like ChatGPT maker OpenAI are already considering replacing software engineers with AI.

Still, Colombia Business School professor Oded Netzer believes AI will help coders rather than replace them.

"As far as jobs go, I think it's primarily an enhancer rather than a complete replacement for jobs," Netzer told CBS MoneyWatch. "Coding and programming is a good example. It can actually code very well."

2. Media workers (advertising, content creation, journalists)

Madgavkar believes that entire media jobs-including those in advertising, technical writing, journalism, and any role involved in content creation-could be affected by ChatGPT and similar forms of AI.

The reason is simple: AI can read, write, and understand text-based data very well.

"Analysing and interpreting large amounts of language-based data and information is a skill that you would expect to improve with generative AI technology," Madgavkar said.

Economist Paul Krugman said in a New York Times op-ed that ChatGPT may be able to perform tasks such as reporting and writing "more efficiently than humans."

The media industry is already experimenting with AI-generated content. Tech news site CNET wrote dozens of articles using AI tools similar to ChatGPT, although it had to post a few corrections.

But Madgavkar says most of the work content creators do cannot be automated.

"There's a lot of human judgment involved in each of these occupations," she said.

3. Legal practitioners (paralegals, paralegals)

As with media roles, jobs in the legal profession, such as paralegals and paralegals, are responsible for consuming large amounts of information, synthesizing what they have learned, and then making it digestible through legal briefs or opinions.

Madgavkar says language-oriented roles like these are easy to automate.

"The data is actually quite structured and very language-oriented, so it's quite good for generative AI," she added.

But again, AI won't fully automate these jobs because it requires a degree of human judgment to understand what customers or employers want.

"It's almost like the productivity boost that these occupations can get because you can use tools that actually do better," Madgavkar said.

4. market research analysts

AI is good at analyzing data and predicting outcomes. This is why market research analysts may be susceptible to AI-driven change.

Market research analysts collect data, identify trends in that data, and then use what they discover to design effective marketing campaigns or decide where to place ads.

5. teachers

Teachers across the country are concerned about students using ChatGPT to cheat, but they should also consider their job safety, according to the associate dean of computing and information science at Rochester Institute of Technology.

"ChatGPT can teach easily."

"Although it has errors and inaccuracies in knowledge, it's easy to improve," he said. "Basically, you just need to train ChatGPT."

6. Finance (Financial Analyst, Personal Financial Advisor)

Brookings Institution researcher Muro said that like market research analysts, financial analysts, personal financial advisers and other jobs in personal finance that require manipulation of large amounts of digital data will be affected by AI.

"AI can identify trends in the market, highlight which investments in a portfolio are performing better and which are performing worse, communicate all of that, and then use various other forms of data by, for example, financial firms to predict better portfolios," Muro said.

These analysts make a lot of money, he says, but part of their work can be automated.

7. traders

Rochester Institute of Technology's Shi also told the New York Post that certain Wall Street actors may also be in danger.

"In investment banking, people are hired right out of college to spend two or three years working like robots, doing Excel modeling--you can get AI to do that," he said.

8. graphic designer

In a December Harvard Business Review article, three professors pointed out that DALL·E is an artificial intelligence tool that can generate images in seconds and is a potential disruptor for the graphic design industry.

"Improving the ability of millions of people to create and process images will have profound economic implications," they wrote,"and these latest advances in AI are sure to usher in a difficult and economically painful period for those whose jobs are directly affected and difficult to adapt to."

9. accountants

Accounting is often seen as a stable profession, but even employees in this profession can be exposed to risk.

Brett Caraway, associate professor at the University of Toronto's Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, told Toronto Global News Radio that technology hasn't put everyone out of work yet, but it has.

Caraway added that "intellectual labor" in particular could be threatened.

"It could be a lawyer, an accountant," he said. "This is something new and it will be interesting to see how disruptive and painful it is for jobs and politics."

10. customer service

You've probably called or chatted to a company's customer service and had a bot answer it. ChatGPT and related technologies are likely to continue this trend.

A 2022 Gartner study predicts that chatbots will be the primary customer service channel for about 25% of companies by 2027.

References:

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-jobs-at-risk-replacement-artificial-intelligence-ai-labor-trends-2023-02#accountants-9

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10tmjp4/chatgpt_may_be_coming_for_our_jobs_here_are_the/

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