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Job roles most at risk Being replaced by AI This has come to light in a new study by Microsoft.
Assessing over 200,000 interactions with its Copilot generative AI chatbot, the tech giant has compiled a comprehensive list of the businesses in which AI is most and least applicable.
Office jobs such as sales and communications roles are among them The biggest threat from AIBecause constantly evolving software takes over more of the work typically done by workers in these areas.
To reach its conclusions, Microsoft Analyzed how often CoPilot users were performing tasks similar to those found in certain job roles, and how effective the tool was at the task.
The analysis established which tasks were being performed most frequently and with the highest levels of success, and this enabled it to determine the occupations with the highest levels of success. aye “Overlap”.
The workers whose roles were found to have the most overlap with AI were interpreters and translators, with 98 percent of their work activities overlapping with those performed by copilots, often with a high level of success.
Other employees scoring high include historians (91 percent), mathematicians (91 percent), writers (85 percent) and journalists (81 percent).
The authors of the report note that “the most common work activities in which people seek the help of AI are to gather information WriteWhile the most common activities that AI itself is performing are providing information and assistance, writing, teaching and advising.
Meanwhile, the least affected occupations include those that “require physically working with people, operating or monitoring machinery, and other physical labor”.
These roles included nurse, plasterer, tire repairer and massage therapist, all with less than 11 percent overlap.
However, the report said the researchers were only looking at how large-language-model (LLM) AI systems like Copilot are used, adding that “other applications of AI could certainly impact occupations involving operating and monitoring machinery, such as truck driving”.
While the results may cause some concern for those currently working in job roles with greater AI overlap, one of the report’s senior authors played down fears of professions being completely replaced.
Microsoft researcher Kiran Tomlinson said: “Our research shows that AI supports many tasks, particularly those involving research, writing and communication, but does not indicate that it can completely replace any one business.”
“It’s about figuring out which job categories can use AI chatbots productively, not just taking away or replacing jobs,” he told Sky News.
Mr Tomlinson said Generative AI “could prove to be a useful tool for many businesses”, adding that “the right balance lies in finding how to use the technology in a way that takes advantage of its capabilities while complementing human strengths and taking into account people’s preferences”.