Anthropic Study Warns AI Could Disrupt Office Jobs, Programmers Among Most Exposed

Economists have difficulty quickly assessing the possible impact of artificial intelligence on the way people do their jobs in the coming years, but it has the potential to change office life significantly. Anthropic claims that they are attempting to monitor the possible changes before they actually appear in the job market. They have come up with a new system that assesses the level of dependency of various jobs on tasks that AI has the ability to perform.

According to a new research paper by economists Maxim Masenkoff and Peter McCrory at Anthropic, this system acts as an index that measures how vulnerable different tasks are to automation by large language models. The index closely examines the tasks that make up a job. If a significant portion of those tasks can be handled by AI and are already being performed using AI tools, that job is considered more vulnerable to automation.

The company's analysis shows that certain technology-focused roles may face the greatest risk. According to the report, programmers are among the most affected, as AI systems could perform nearly three-quarters of their typical tasks. Besides programmers, customer service representatives, data entry workers, and medical records specialists also appear high on the vulnerability list.