We had been exporting jobs overseas.

New data suggests will soon export those jobs to computers.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

We're only in the early stages of understanding just how much generative artificial intelligence will disrupt jobs.

For now, AI tends to be enhancing workers not necessarily replacing them. That's the highlight of a new report out of MIT, but there's one broad exception, Marketplace's Elizabeth Troval reports.

Adoption of generative AI did lead some firms to cut back spending on jobs that were often already being outsourced, things like customer service, software engineering,

and administrative tasks. That's according to MIT's new report. Prad Yom Nachari is one of the authors.

coding, writing, documentation. All of these are some simple aspects where we do think AI is

already playing a big role in business.

But the report found mostly there were not big headcount reductions.

It makes sense since AI tools so far are often helping workers write emails or documents,

says Harvard's Christopher Stanton.

Sort of the broad nature of work hasn't changed to reflect AI other than sort of some time

savings.

And whether some jobs are augmented or automated may not be simply a matter of technology,

says Tom Mitchell with Carnegie Mellon University.

It'll be a matter of businesses evolving their business processes to figure out

how to incorporate these capabilities. He says that's why procedures where it's easy to plug in

AI, like customer service, are one of the first places we're seeing a shift. I'm Elizabeth Troval for Marketplace.

The beleaguered U.S. microchipmaker Intel just got a $2 billion lifeline from Japan's investment

conglomerate SoftBank. This makes the company in Manato just outside of Tokyo one of Intel's

biggest shareholders. This comes as the Trump administration is discussing the federal government, buying a 10% stake in Intel.

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