Research The Impact of Generative AI on Different Professions and Workers

TapTechNews September 29th news, according to a report by Forbes on the 28th local time, research released by the IndeedHiringLab shows that professionals and office workers are more vulnerable in the face of the progress of generative AI than manual workers, but generative AI is not yet ready to become a killer in any category.

In the 2800 job skills studied, none will immediately face the threat of being massively eliminated by AI. This study uses the OpenAI's GPT-4o model to investigate a series of job skills in the IndeeHiringLab recruitment advertisements (TapTechNews note: such as account management, hotel services, etc.) - simply put, it is to study whether generative AI can replace certain jobs.

Among the evaluated skills, most skills (69%) have a very low or low possibility of being replaced by generative AI, and only more than a quarter (29%) of skills may be replaced by generative AI in the future, provided that enterprises change certain practices and obtain improved tools.

Research finds that no job is considered very likely to be replaced by AI. The authors of this study believe that human job skills will not be easily replaced, even if (contemporary generative AI) masters and executes one of the thousands of common job skills identified by Indeed, it is unlikely to replace a competent human worker.

Whether human work will be replaced by AI depends on the physical demand of the work. If a skill requires a lot of hands-on practice, such as cooking, then the practicality of AI will be limited.

At the same time, jobs including accounting, marketing/advertising, software development, healthcare administrative support, insurance claims, and recruitment, etc., have a more than 50% possibility of being replaced to some extent by AI. Because generative AI may provide important knowledge and solve some simple problems. However, this also emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement of skills and continuous learning for human workers.

The occupation currently at the greatest risk is accounting, with nearly 78% of the skills rated as possible or very likely to be replaced by generative AI.