In a study published Monday, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab sought to quantify the question of not just will AI automate human jobs, but when this could happen. Researchers ended up finding that a vast majority of jobs previously identified as vulnerable to AI are not economically beneficial for employers to automate at this time. While this could change over time, the overall findings suggest that job disruption from AI will likely unfurl at a gradual pace. This could mean that policymakers, employers and even workers can start best preparing and adapting for these coming changes now. “[The study] gives us this ability to start being a little more quantitative of how rapidly we expect worker displacement to happen,” Thompson said.

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Persons: ” Neil Thompson, it’s, ” Thompson, “, Thompson, Kristalina Georgieva, ” Organizations: CNN, MIT’s Computer, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, International Monetary Fund, MIT