Knowledge@Wharton September 10, 2024
A new study weighs the positive and negative impacts of LLMs based on the exposure of tasks to the technology and their potential to be transformed by AI.
Large language models (LLMs), the AI programs that churn vast amounts of data to generate content, will have large impacts on jobs, but they will take a long time to do so. That’s the conclusion of a team of experts at Wharton and elsewhere who analyzed tasks across occupations for their exposure to LLMs and their potential to be transformed by AI. For example, cooks, carpenters, and motorcycle mechanics are unlikely to have exposure to LLMs. But interpreters, poets, and proofreaders are among those with the highest likelihood of LLMs performing their...