Fortune September 16, 2024
If you had 20% of your time back at work each day, how would you spend it?
This is the question that Lareina Yee, senior partner at McKinsey and chair of the McKinsey Technology Council, poses to me as we discuss the implications of generative A.I. for workers over Zoom.
Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, the world has been in a tizzy about the idea of robots, quite literally, taking over our jobs. A 2023 survey conducted by Fortune and The Harris Poll found that 40% of workers familiar with ChatGPT worry it will replace them. Thousands of them have already lost their jobs to the technology. Top VC Kai-Fu Lee even predicts that A.I. will displace 50%...