10 Jobs That Could Disappear Any Day Now, Thanks to AI

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You can’t turn around these days without bumping into artificial intelligence. What the metaverse was in 2022, AI is shaping up to be this year: the technological innovation that promises—or threatens—to reshape how we live.

Though Second Life 2.0 didn’t really deliver, AI will likely be much more impactful. Some compare it to the rise of automation in the last few decades, in which whole industries were reshaped by robotics and self-operating machines. Artificial intelligence promises the same thing for white-collar jobs, with a recent Goldman Sachs report estimating it could replace 300 million human workers. Here are 10 occupations that AI could make obsolete.

The next step in developing new AI models will be to train more specialized programs that, instead of training on a wide range of data, follow more targeted pathways. One of the most promising directions is to build an AI that can perform basic accounting duties. The job of an accountant is bound by clear, understandable rules—exactly the kind you would use to train an AI.

Accounting companies including Sage are already using artificial intelligence to automate their processes, and as the algorithms become more stable and trusted, the tasks that require human input will decrease. Automation will remove entry-level accounting jobs, leaving the industry composed of auditors and overseers who just check the AI's work.

Much has been written about the emotional burden social networks such as Facebook and Twitter place on their content moderators, who have to filter out horrible photos, videos, and other content so the rest of us don’t see it. A good portion of that content is already prescreened by AI algorithms, but often, the final decision must be made by a