NEW YORK–With plenty of people worried about what artificial intelligence and tools such as ChapGPT might mean for their jobs, a huge new report has found one of the most at-risk careers is also one of the biggest areas of employment within credit unions.
The “Future of Jobs” report by the World Economic Forum is forecasting that most workers are safe (in the near term), but the capacity of AI to grow more intelligent than humans is real, according to Fortune. For example, humans have roughly 86 billion neurons in their brains, but ChatGPT already has between 500 billion and one trillion connections.
“The WEF argues what’s becoming quite clear: Time is running out now for millions of roles, especially those trying to resist digital transformation, before they go the way of the fax machine,” stated Fortune. “By 2027, the WEF projects, nearly 70 million new jobs will be created worldwide and 83 million will be eliminated. That constitutes a reduction in employment of 14 million jobs, or 2% of the global workforce.”
The Fastest-Growing Jobs
The fastest growing jobs will be those driven by technology, digitalization and sustainability, according to the report, with the WEF asserting that the top three skills that will become most important over the next five years are creative thinking, analytical thinking, and technological literacy—none of which can be automated.
The Fastest-Declining Jobs
On the flip side, the report forecasts the fastest-declining roles will also driven down by the advent of tech and automation, and will be in clerical, administrative or secretarial areas.
“WEF expects four in particular to decline the fastest: bank tellers, postal service clerks, cashiers and ticket clerks and data entry clerks,” Fortune reported.
Even if your job didn’t make the list, Fortune suggested no one is immune from the changes being brought about by AI.
“Nearly a quarter of all professions—even the ones that won’t grow or shrink dramatically—will change some way, somehow, as a result of A.I. and digitization over the next five years,” according to the World Economic Forum.
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