AI has forced many white-collar workers to confront a suddenly-uncertain future. Until now, the specter of technological progress had always come for the blue-collar job
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, most of us would have, over the course of the past half-year, encountered some astounding uses of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. This could have been the shocking ability of ChatGPT to generate long essays responding to virtually any topic. Or the uncanny skill of Syntheses in producing deepfake videos of strangers and celebrities alike. Or the fearful ease that tools such as Github Copilot, Tableau, and Consensus have been able to replicate all manners of skilled work, ranging from programming to data analysis to producing entire research papers.