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Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive

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Goldman Sachs predicted 300 million jobs would be lost, while the likes of Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk asked for AI development to be paused (although pointedly not the development of autonomous driving). It is difficult to underestimate the importance of self-efficacy in personal development.

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What Can Past Technological Revolutions Tell Us About Today?

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Exposure to risk The researchers developed an approach to gauge the exposure of workers to new technology. This seems to be the case today, with the infamous analysis from Frey and Osborne also suggesting that professions like nurses would be little impacted by the wave of automation that was set to wash over us.

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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

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Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market. Societal wellbeing.

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There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. | Rich Gee Group

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Dean Harris was a wonderful man who reached out to me at different junctures of my college career — giving me sage advice (and reprimanding me when I stepped over the line). I think it gives you a solid world-view that tempers your expectations, avoids disappointment, and permits development of realistic goals. I’m shocked.

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Is 8 Hours Of Work Per Week Ideal For Our Health And Wellbeing?

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Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. Indeed, even if people were only working less than 8 hours per week, they were 30% less likely to develop mental health issues.

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Technology Isn’t Destroying Jobs, But Is Increasing Inequality

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Whilst the likes of the Frey and Osborne paper predicted a pretty widespread demolition of 47% of all jobs, the reality is that those with low-skilled, routine jobs are far more at risk. What’s more, there is little sign that those skills are going to be developed.