☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“The story of automation in the US is that it has mostly impacted on manual workers in manufacturing. For example, factory employees — such as carmakers — performing routine tasks have lost their jobs to robots — or lower-cost Asian competitors.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/IndustrialAutomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndustrialAutomation</span></a> has tended to affect lower-skilled, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BlueCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlueCollar</span></a> jobs in the “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/rustbelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rustbelt</span></a>” heartlands and small-town, less-educated communities in the south and midwest. </p><p>But a recent study from the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BrookingsInstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrookingsInstitution</span></a> suggests that the communities most exposed to AI-driven job dislocation will be <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhiteCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteCollar</span></a> information workers. The researchers studied the usage of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a>’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> tools across more than 1,000 occupations and mapped this against where those jobs were most commonly located. </p><p>Their analysis suggests that many <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/coders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coders</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawyers</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FinancialAnalysts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinancialAnalysts</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/bureaucrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucrats</span></a> in cities such as San Jose, San Francisco, Durham, New York and Washington DC might want to rethink their futures. But <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NonOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonOffice</span></a>-bound <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workers</span></a> in places such as Las Vegas, Toledo, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Indiana may be less exposed to AI disruption.”</p><p>My observation since 2022 when <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ChristopherHohn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherHohn</span></a> an influential shareholder decided to *speak out* about “reducing its head count and paying (hi-tech) workers less”. [1]</p><p>This is the decade where extreme (cost) pressure will be forced on White collar workers by the introduction of AI. </p><p><<a href="https://archive.md/YqF03" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/YqF03</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>> / <<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/04343a69-8204-493c-b8c6-edfbd4057199" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/04343a69-8204-4</span><span class="invisible">93c-b8c6-edfbd4057199</span></a>> (paywall)</p><p>[1] <<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/11/15/billionaire-hedge-fund-investor-urges-alphabet-to-cut-costs-no-justification-for-salaries-that-are-too-high/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/jonathanponci</span><span class="invisible">ano/2022/11/15/billionaire-hedge-fund-investor-urges-alphabet-to-cut-costs-no-justification-for-salaries-that-are-too-high/</span></a>></p>