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:
- Telemarketers
- English language and literature teachers
- Foreign language and literature teachers
- History teachers
- Law teachers
- Philosophy and religion teachers
- Sociology teachers
- Political science teachers
- Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers
- Sociologists
- Social work teachers
- Psychology teachers
- Communications teachers
- Political scientists
- Cultural studies teachers
- Arbitrators, mediators and conciliators
- Judges, magistrate judges and magistrates
- Geography teachers
- Library science teachers
- 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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