Shane Legg says fully digital jobs are most vulnerable to automation
Remote work as we know it may be nearing a turning point, according to Shane Legg, co-founder and head of AGI research at Google DeepMind. In a recent conversation with Hannah Fry, Legg argued that advances in artificial intelligence will disproportionately impact jobs that can be done entirely online.
“Jobs that are purely cognitive and done remotely via a computer are particularly vulnerable,” Legg said, noting that AI systems are rapidly approaching human-level performance in many intellectual tasks. As a result, companies may shrink distributed teams, since smaller groups equipped with AI tools can deliver the same — or better — outcomes.
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