AI creates, transforms and destroys... jobs

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We often talk about the jobs lost due to artificial intelligence. But what about the ones created or even transformed? From the gig work of training AI on good and bad answers through to designing new AI models, AI jobs are popping up like mushrooms.

Today on the Indicator, we talk to people in these new roles and consider what the bots mean for the labor market.

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0:00.0	NPR It's at time of the month when the Bureau of Labor
0:15.9	District 6 publishes its big jobs report.
0:18.9	And last month, the U.S. economy added 199,000 jobs.
0:23.5	The unemployment rate fell to 3.7%.
0:26.5	Now this is my new co-host,
0:28.3	Robo Cooper, which is a synthetic AI voice replica of our producer, Cooper Katz-McCam. I'm pleased to be here. Cooper Katz-McCam.
0:34.0	I'm pleased to be here.
0:35.0	Good to have you.
0:36.0	And the reason I brought you on
0:38.0	is because today we're going to home in on your peers, the robots.
0:42.0	We're going to look at how AI is rippling through. on your peers, the robots.
0:42.9	We're going to look at how AI is rippling through the jobs market.
0:46.4	Yes, it's been one year since the AI Chatbot ChatGPT got released.
0:51.3	Google just this week released a new version of its chatbot Bard with more advanced capabilities
0:56.8	and AI jobs are booming.
0:58.4	That's right and we've heard a lot of concern and anxiety over the jobs that AI like you are taking over.
1:05.0	Economists call this substituting labor.
1:08.0	But we also wanted to hear about the jobs that AI is creating and reshaping.
1:13.1	Economists call that complementing labor.
1:15.6	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
1:20.7	I'm Darren Woods.
1:21.8	And I'm Robo Cooper.
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