MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
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CEOs and billionaires first.
I'm hungry.
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In comparison level 5 self driving would replace 30% of the workforce, and 5% of workers being unemployed is the expected normal background rate
11.7% is hardly anything
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This guy's getting replaced by a chatbot because he clearly isn't in a position that requires critical thinking ability
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Were they assuming it works properly when they made this study? Because it kind of... Doesn't
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I am sure the AI companies will take care of use when they take all of our jobs.
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Honestly the only thing I see current level AI reliably doing without being used as an assistive tool is grunt info work. For example a lot of T1 customer service positions can moreorless be replaced out with the current level of LLM's that we have. Many T1 support roles consist almost entirely of searching the current customers issue, copy/pasting a boilerplate solution list of what may fix it, asking "did that work?" and if not escalating to the next tier. Hallucinations at this level won't have a very big impact outside of annoying the customer and the t2 when it gets escalated because it failed to fix the issue. Said system shouldn't have control over anything, it should strictly be information based. Anything management wise or financial wise or general output of merchandise should not be using these technologies standalone, at most it should be an assistive tool to a human in that position.
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Idk if I am a special case or part of the majority, but when I resort to calling a support line, it's because I have exhausted the options available to me via technology, and I need a human to take responsibility. So there has literally never been a time when a purely informational AI support bot has been useful to me.
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I'm the same way here, being said, if that's the case a T1 wouldn't be useful to you anyway, as they just copy/paste the simple solutions you have likely already tried. So really no harm is done in this circumstance.
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Most T1 customer service I deal with is already useless AI garbage.
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Being an assistant can make it a replacement. If 1 AI assisted worker can do the job of 1.25 not AI assisted workers you can drop 1 in every 5 workers and still complete the same amount of work (numbers made up).
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Currently, one AI assisted worker can do the job of ⅘ of a non-AI assisted worker (numbers not made up: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089 )
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Which specific 11% of the workforce are we comfortable being totally unaccountable and unthinking?
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C-suite execs
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I guess if 11.7% of your workforce is unreliable dumbasses then they could be replaced by AI
I genuinely believe that roughly 10% of most companies are ineffective employees, whether via being a dumbass or just not caring (valid or not).
fuck, I'm seeing it happen as my own company grows from very small to medium small (a few dozen people). I swear some of my new coworkers are just AI with the way they lie to your face, you point it out, and then they immediately agree with you that yes what they said was incorrect.
Bottom of a bell curve...
looks up the ladder
I just see assholes