Surely you have heard of the text robot Chat GPT, which can in an instant write down an answer to basically any question.
AI technology is undergoing tremendous development and has become a topic on everyone's lips.
And the development will affect the labor market in an extensive way.
- The unique thing is that it is happening historically fast and that knowledge- and information-intensive tasks are exposed to AI, says Magnus Lodefalk, researcher at Örebro University and the Ratio research institute.
The speed is increasing and there is a risk that we underestimate the impact on the labor market, according to Magnus Lodefalk.
People will have to be more alert.
- Society must keep up.
We need to adjust and relearn as technology develops.
The professions most affected by AI
Together with doctoral student Erik Engberg and others, Magnus Lodefalk has developed a measure that resulted in a list of the professions expected to be most affected - and those least affected.
Among others, statisticians, system developers and financial assistants can benefit from, or perhaps even be replaced by, AI in the future.
But if you instead work as a correctional officer or assistant nurse, the likelihood that you will be affected is small.
Magnus Lodefalk emphasizes that AI technology is positive from a welfare perspective, but that it can nevertheless have negative socio-economic consequences.
- Employment and wages risk developing worse for certain groups.
It can depend on the level of education, where in the country you live or how sharp the company is, he says.
Hansen: The technology created to help man
Anders Hansen, psychiatrist, believes that AI can change society to the point that nothing will be the same.
- It will only go faster and faster.
But in the midst of it all, we must not forget that technology is created to help people, and that we should feel better, he says.
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