AI can’t agree on which jobs are vulnerable to AI

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To see the uncertain effects that AI will have on the job market, look no further than AI. A recent study, unpicked by the Wall Street Journal yesterday, found that chatbots gave a range of answers when asked which professions were most exposed to the technology. There were notable disagreements over the vulnerability of advertising managers and accountants, with economists finding it mattered which workers were using AI. Financial analysts, for instance, are super-users, which means they generate more training data. The WSJ argued that this “feeds into how the models rank that profession”. The issue is that if policymakers are using AI to work out where to put protective resources, they may be focusing on the wrong professions.