Big Tech Forms Group to Study AI's Impact on Tech Jobs as Automation Worries Grow
• Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft are forming a group to study how AI will affect tech jobs. Unions are also advising.
• There are growing concerns about AI eliminating jobs as the technology advances quickly. Some writers have already lost jobs to AI.
• 20% of American employees are in jobs highly exposed to AI displacement, like tax preparers and copywriters.
• The group plans to produce a report with insights for business leaders and workers on how AI may change work for 56 technology jobs.
• Tech companies argue AI will make workers more efficient, but have laid off thousands even as they talk about "reskilling" workers.