Brookings February 19, 2025
As the generative AI race heats up, it’s important to examine where in the U.S. the technology might boost or harm workers, or if place even matters.
Last fall, Brookings published a report looking at possible patterns of AI involvement in the labor market, focusing on how generative AI appears set to intersect with particular occupations, regardless of their location. There, we found that more than 30% of all workers could see at least 50% of their occupational tasks affected by ChatGPT-4, while 85% of workers could see at least 10% of their tasks affected, with greater impacts possible.
Most notably, our analysis—based on occupation-specific “exposure” data supplied by ChatGPT creator OpenAI over a year ago—forecasted that for...
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