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MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce (www.cnbc.com)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday released a study that found that artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, or as much as $1.2 trillion in wages across finance, health care and professional services.

The study was conducted using a labor simulation tool called the Iceberg Index, which was created by MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The index simulates how 151 million U.S. workers interact across the country and how they are affected by AI and corresponding policy

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Even with the hallucinations I'm pretty sure AI can already do many CEO's job better than they can. The only thing they seem to take into account is line go up. That's pretty easy to replicate.