2025-12-09T18:52:42+00:00
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to automate much of modern office work, but that doesn't mean the entire profession will disappear, according to a report from CNET.
CNET said Tuesday that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes generative AI could replace up to half of entry-level white-collar roles in the next few years. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg similarly said in April that he expects AI systems to be writing half of the company's code within a year. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 64% of Americans expect AI to reduce the number of jobs available, raising concerns among workers.
When Microsoft researchers released a study in July that ranked occupations by how much their AI functions and tasks overlap, alarm grew among those listed at the top, such as translators and historians. But the report cautions against assuming that high duplication will lead to job losses.
“It is tempting to conclude that jobs and wages will be lost as occupations that overlap with the activities performed by AI are automated. This is incorrect because our data do not include the downstream business impacts of new technologies, which are very difficult to predict and often counterintuitive,” the researchers wrote, according to CNET.
Darrell M. West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation, told CNET that it's important to distinguish between work and tasks. He said most professions will remain intact, even if many individual tasks within them are increasingly automated.
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