Educators among professions most impacted by AI

This article from CBS News summarizes the results of an analysis attempting to predict the occupations most “exposed” to recent AI capabilities. Exposed was the word carefully chosen to indicate that AI could substitute for or complement competencies important in these occupations. In some cases, this analysis proposes the people doing this kind of work could be replaced and in others the people doing this kind of work will be able to use AI to improve their productivity and effectiveness.

The ordered list of the occupations most “exposed” follows:

  1. Telemarketers
  2. English language and literature teachers
  3. Foreign language and literature teachers
  4. History teachers
  5. Law teachers
  6. Philosophy and religion teachers
  7. Sociology teachers
  8. Political science teachers
  9. Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers
  10. Sociologists
  11. Social work teachers
  12. Psychology teachers
  13. Communications teachers
  14. Political scientists
  15. Cultural studies teachers
  16. Arbitrators, mediators and conciliators
  17. Judges, magistrate judges and magistrates
  18. Geography teachers
  19. Library science teachers
  20. Clinical, counseling and school psychologists

The methodology used in this analysis is explained in a paper explaining how existing estimates of the importance of 52 specific skills are involved in over 800 professions against the specific capabilities of multiple AI systems. The occupations with the greatest overlap are considered most exposed.

I would assume this list of exposed occupations would be used to identify the teachers who should pay the most attention to AI and how AI tools could be applied in their classrooms.

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