Happy Labor Day From Your Robot Overlords - Newsweek
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Happy Labor Day. Your job may be doomed.
has been warning about this possibility for quite a while.
Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still more novelty than colleague, researchers at the company and the University of Pennsylvania
estimated that about
80 percent of American workers could see at least 10 percent of their tasks affected by large language models
.
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Nearly one worker in five could see at least half their tasks affected.
The paper had the deliberately nerdy title
GPTs are GPTs
. The first GPT meant the artificial-intelligence models. The second meant "general-purpose technologies": inventions such as electricity or the computer that do not merely create a new industry but rearrange lots of existing ones.
Three-and-a-half years later, the rearranging appears to be proceeding nicely. On Thursday, OpenAI
unveiled GPT-6 Astra
, its latest and most powerful model, with the ability to operate computers directly and with its advanced cybersecurity features. The company’s President Greg Brockman
put it less than modestly
: "Welcome to the AGI era."
By Sunday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had
gone further
in a post on X: "AGI has arrived."
If you wanted to design a Labor Day specifically to make the American worker nervous, then you would struggle to improve on this one.
Except there is an awkward problem with the story of our impending economic redundancy.
The Robots Appear To Be Hiring Us
analysis published by
The Economist
just before Labor Day estimates that the artificial-intelligence boom has so far helped create roughly 1 million American
, considerably more than the roughly 200,000 layoffs attributed to AI since mid-2023.
added 162,000 jobs in August
, far above expectation