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The jobs the report predicts will be least affected include blue-collar work in transportation, construction, and production, largely held by men.

“It is women, not men, who face both the highest exposure to generative AI and the highest automation risk,” the report says. “The stakes are especially high for this racially and ethnically diverse group of lower-middle-class women, many of whom may risk falling into more precarious, lower-paid work if this work is displaced. In this regard, much more analysis is needed of the likely distribution of AI’s employment effects by race, disability, and other statuses and identities.”

The report’s authors laid out the many things they don’t know about the changing work environment. It’s not clear whether generative AI will merely augment or fully automate jobs, which populations will be most affected, or how the new technology will exacerbate inequality.

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Sadly, she points out, generative AI affects some of the people who were subject to the last wave of the access doctrine: students who were sent to coding schools and boot camps to pick up programming skills, sold as a quick entry to the job market. Now AI may be able to do their jobs.

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