U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace
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U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace
We have already outsourced the worst part of writing (checking grammar) and math (long division) to machines like spell checkers and calculators, which freed us from these tedious tasks. It would be natural to use LLMs to extend the process. And this is indeed what we have seen in some early research on using AI for work. People who use AI to do ta
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- Anxiety of irrelevance : people might not relate to, value, or think about me
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- Leaders say AI will replace many functions at their organization, but employees don’t realize how much they’ll be affected. Only 20% of workers think “mos