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Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton reveals the surprising jobs safe from automation — and the roles everybody will lose soon
Geoffrey Hinton is called the "Godfather of AI" because of his important work on neural networks. He used to work at Google. Hinton talked about AI and jobs in an interview on the "Diary of a CEO" podcast aired on June 16, as per reports. He said AI will one day be better than humans at everything. But for now, some jobs are safer. Jobs that need physical work, like plumbing, will stay safe for a long time. Hinton said, "It will take a long time for AI to be good at physical tasks... so being a plumber is a smart choice," according to Business Insider. Which jobs will AI replace soon? Gen Z workers are increasingly choosing blue-collar jobs like plumbing because the job market is very tough. For boring or routine intellectual jobs, AI will replace almost everyone. Hinton, "For mundane intellectual labor, AI is just going to replace everybody." by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Brought to you by Undo Paralegals are at high risk of being replaced by AI. Working in call centers is very risky, Hinton said he'd be "terrified" if he worked there. To keep a job safe from AI, people need to be very skilled. Hinton says, "You would have to be very skilled to have an AI-proof job", as stated by Business Insider. Hinton sees mass job losses caused by AI as the biggest threat to people's happiness right now. Even if governments give universal basic income, people might still feel unhappy because they lose their sense of purpose without work. Hinton advocates UBI but worries about loss of purpose. Live Events Mass job displacement by AI is likely and is already happening in some ways. AI is starting to take over jobs that recent college graduates used to get. Some people think AI won't fully replace entry-level jobs, but will help humans do those jobs better, as mentioned by Business Insider. Hinton agrees some jobs will be done by humans working with AI assistants, but that means one person will do the work of 10 people, leading to big job cuts. Healthcare jobs might handle AI changes better because there's always high demand for healthcare. Hinton said, "A few areas, like healthcare, will be able to absorb the change." But most jobs are not like healthcare and will not be able to absorb AI disruptions well, as per the report by Business Insider. FAQs Q1. Which jobs are safe from AI? Jobs that need physical work like plumbing and healthcare are safer from AI. Q2. What kinds of jobs will AI replace soon? AI will replace many routine office jobs like paralegals and call center workers.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
The Godfather of AI reveals which jobs are safest — and where 'everybody' will get replaced
The "Godfather of AI" said certain industries are going to be wiped out sooner than others. Geoffrey Hinton said that "mundane intellectual labor" is at the most risk. He said mass job displacement is the biggest immediate threat to happiness, and it's already here. Now is a great time to become a plumber, at least according to the so-called Godfather of AI. Geoffrey Hinton, who previously worked at Google and earned his nickname for his work on neural networks, laid out the risks of mass joblessness during an interview on the 'Diary of a CEO' podcast that aired June 16. He said that, eventually, the technology will "get to be better than us at everything," but some fields are safer than others in the interim. "I'd say it's going to be a long time before it's as good at physical manipulation," Hinton said. "So a good bet would be to be a plumber." Gen Zers, who are trapped in a brutal job market, are gravitating more and more toward blue-collar work, as BI previously reported. "For mundane intellectual labor, AI is just going to replace everybody," Hinton said. He flagged paralegals as at risk, and said he'd be "terrified" if he worked in a call center. You would, he said, have to be "very skilled" to have an AI-proof job. Hinton sees the risk of mass job displacement as the biggest immediate threat to human unhappiness. Even if there's a universal basic income, as Hinton advocates, he thinks people would lack a sense of purpose without a job. According to Hinton, mass displacement is more likely than not, and is already upon us in some ways. He said AI is starting to be used for jobs previously popular with recent college graduates. Some argue that the fear that AI will displace entry-level work is overblown. Hinton agreed with the idea that some roles will be replaced by humans working with an AI assistant rather than just the technology, but he said that means one person will do what used to be the work of 10 people. For many industries, he said, that will mean mass firings. A few areas, like healthcare, will be able to absorb the change, since there's almost endless demand. "But most jobs, I think, are not like that," Hinton said. Read the original article on Business Insider
Time of India
03-06-2025
- Time of India
Why US colleges are turning to blue book exams to fight ChatGPT cheating
Why blue books are making a comeback in US classrooms amid AI concerns. (Representative AI Image) As artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT reshape the way students study and complete assignments, many US colleges are taking a surprising step backward—toward pen, paper, and the iconic blue exam booklet. The humble blue book, first introduced in the late 1920s, is making a powerful comeback as educators look for ways to counteract a growing wave of AI-assisted academic dishonesty. According to The Wall Street Journal, blue book sales have surged in recent years, fueled by growing concern among professors about students using ChatGPT to complete take-home tests, write essays, and finish homework. While many students see AI as a helpful tool, educators are raising red flags about the integrity of academic work in the AI era. A return to handwritten testing across US campuses Roaring Spring Paper Products, the family-owned company that manufactures most blue books, reported a significant rise in demand. Sales are up more than 30% at Texas A&M University, nearly 50% at the University of Florida, and 80% at the University of California, Berkeley over the past two years, according to The Wall Street Journal. Each blue book costs just 23 cents in campus bookstores, making it a simple but effective tool for in-person, supervised exams. Professors are using the blue book to create AI-proof environments. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Yale University lecturer Kevin Elliott adopted the blue book after discovering that some students had submitted essays with fabricated quotes from famous philosophers—a clear sign of AI-generated content. Elliott replaced take-home papers with in-class, handwritten blue book exams and told The Wall Street Journal the change worked so well that he plans to continue the approach next academic year. Faculty are worried, and students are using AI widely A January 2023 survey by as cited by The Wall Street Journal, revealed that nearly 90% of college students admitted using ChatGPT for homework, 53% used it to write an essay, and 48% used it during an at-home test or quiz. Another survey conducted in January by the American Association of Colleges and Universities and Elon University found that 59% of US college leaders believe cheating has increased since AI tools became widely available. Over half of those surveyed also said their faculty struggle to tell the difference between AI-written and student-written work. More than 70% of college professors expressed concern about how ChatGPT is impacting academic integrity, according to The Wall Street Journal. Still, some faculty recognize the complexity of banning a tool that will be widely used in professional settings. Arthur Spirling, a politics professor at Princeton University, told The Wall Street Journal that although he gives proctored blue book exams, he finds it 'strange' to ban a technology students will use in their careers. 'It is strange to say you won't be permitted to do this thing that will be very natural to you for the rest of your career,' he was quoted as saying by The Wall Street Journal. Balancing tradition with digital-age skills The shift to blue books is not without controversy. While some educators see it as necessary to preserve academic honesty, others question whether avoiding AI in the classroom prepares students for real-world work environments where AI tools like ChatGPT are likely to be commonplace. As of April, ChatGPT had 500 million global weekly users, up from 400 million in February, according to The Wall Street Journal. With AI tools becoming more powerful and accessible, the debate over their role in US education continues to intensify. But for now, the blue book stands as a symbol of the analog fight for academic integrity in the digital age. Ready to navigate global policies? Secure your overseas future. Get expert guidance now!
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
AI in the workplace is nearly 3 times more likely to take a woman's job as a man's, UN report finds
As AI transforms workplaces, the technology has an outsized impact on women's jobs, according to new data from the United Nations' International Labour Organization and Poland's National Research Institute. To help future-proof their careers, women can use AI to augment their jobs, but are less likely to engage with the technology than their male counterparts, according to Harvard Business School professor Rembrand Koning. As workers grapple with anxiety around artificial intelligence replacing them, women in the workplace may have extra reason to fear. Jobs traditionally held by women are much more exposed to AI than those traditionally held by men, according to new data from the United Nations' International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland's National Research Institute (NASK). In higher income countries, jobs with the highest risk of AI automation make up about 9.6% of women's jobs, compared to 3.5% of jobs among men, the report released Tuesday found. More broadly, 25% of global jobs are potentially exposed to generative AI, a percentage that increases to 34% among higher income countries. The report notes clerical and administrative jobs have the highest exposure to AI, which could be one reason why AI poses an outsized risk to women workers. Between 93% and 97% of secretary and administrative assistant positions in the U.S. were held by women between 2000 and 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Comparatively, women made up between 40% and 44% of the workforce in the same 20-year period. Secretaries and administrators are the fifth most common professions for women in the U.S., according to the Department of Labor. Notably, the study does not mention caretaker jobs such as health aides that require emotional labor and are more likely to be held by women; they are considered more AI-proof. While AI has shown potential to gobble up jobs like software engineers and computer programmers, the technology may also threaten entry-level positions across white-collar industries beyond administrative roles. A Bloomberg report in April found AI could replace more than half the tasks performed by market research analysts and two-thirds of tasks done by sales representatives. The technology could perform only 9% and 21% of the respective tasks of those positions' managers. The ILO-NASK report isn't meant to say that AI will eliminate clerical or entry-level jobs. Rather, these jobs still require human involvement in some capacity, and identifying jobs that AI can partially complete can help prepare the workforce in those industries for technological changes. 'This index helps identify where GenAI is likely to have the biggest impact, so countries can better prepare and protect workers,' Marek Troszyński, senior expert at NASK, said in the report. Rembrand Koning, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, believes one key to women future-proofing workplace roles that may be more exposed to AI is to follow the framework of viewing AI as a tool, not a threat. 'This goes back to the distinction between automation versus augmentation when we think about AI,' Koning told Fortune. 'We can think of this as a threat, which is that it's going to automate away a lot of these clerical jobs that might be held more by women. On the other hand, we can think of AI as automating a lot of this work, of allowing [workers] to take on tasks that might be higher paying, or that there might be more competition.' While Koning sees a path forward for workers to use AI to their benefit, he also sees a gender barrier: Women are using AI tools at an average 25% lower rate than men, his research found. There's not one clear reason for this disparity, Koning said, but one explanation outlined in a working paper co-authored by Koning is women are more concerned about the ethics of AI. Some fear they will be judged as cheating for using the technology or that leaning on AI tools will cause male colleagues to question their intelligence. 'Men seem to be much more confident—shall I say, overconfident—that, if they use AI, they'll still get all the benefits,' Koning said. The onus of changing who feels comfortable accessing AI falls not on the women workers, but on leaders in the workplace, Koning said. In many workplaces, workers, usually men, experiment with AI tools in the shadows. Even if an office doesn't have a license for or partnership with an AI company, its management should still set clear expectations and resources on how to use the technology, Koning suggested. 'If we want to make sure it's inclusive, it includes all workers, it's the job of a leader to bring everybody in,' he said. This story was originally featured on
