Research show AI has already replaced work for 20% of jobs

‎A new survey from Epoch AI and Ipsos has found that one in five full-time American workers say AI has already taken over parts of their job, in the latest piece of data adding fuel to the burning debate over AI automation.Among full-time workers, 20 percent said the tech had taken over tasks they used to do themselves, while 15 percent reported AI has created new on-the-job chores they wouldn’t have taken on otherwise.

‎The poll, which surveyed 2,000 US adults, found that about half of all respondents used AI in the past week for either personal or work reasons.  This means that AI displacement — where AI leads to less available work for humans — is outpacing AI augmentation, where human workers become more productive as a result of access to AI tools.

‎“When one in five workers say AI is already replacing parts of their job, we can start talking about labor market restructuring happening in real time,” Nichols Miailhe, an AI policy leader at the Global Policy on Artificial Intelligence, told NBC about the findings. 

‎“The fact that replacement seems to be outpacing augmentation should draw our attention: the policy window to shape how AI transforms work is probably closing faster than most governments realize.”he added.

‎The findings land alongside a separate, sweeping economic survey from researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and several top universities, which found that economists are increasingly revising their models to account for a serious shakeup of the labor market.