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miglymigly t1_j1upl00 wrote

Potentially all office, Admin, clerical type jobs are all under threat. Indeed any job at all that isn’t physical or creative could be under threat.

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Ok_Homework9290 t1_j1v9ytv wrote

I disagree, but respectfully. 5-10 years is not too long of a timeline, and knowledge work is a lot more than just crunching numbers, shuffling papers, etc. Anybody who works in a knowledge-based field (or is familiar with a knowledge-based field) knows this.

AI that's capable of fully replacing what a significant amount of knowledge workers do is still pretty far out, IMO, given how much human interaction, task variety/diversity, abstract thinking, precision, etc. is involved in much of knowledge work (not to mention legal hurdles, adoption, etc).

Knowledge work will undoubtedly change over the next 5-10 years and even more so after that, but I'm pretty confident we're a ways away from it being totally disrupted by AI.

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