Will ChatGPT and other AIs destroy jobs? Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, addressed many concerns to this effect.
Since their advent, ChatGPT and the others artificial intelligence models continue to demonstrate their power. While everyone agrees to recognize their prowess, many people also wonder regarding the future of their jobs. Computer programming, text writing, marketing… AI has already proven that it can do a lot of things, increasing everyone’s anxiety. Obviously, the excitement generated by these AI models has not gone unnoticed by the CEO of OpenAI. Sam Altman decided to respond to it in a series of tweets.
Artificial intelligence will make a lot of people rich
The OpenAI CEO isn’t as pessimistic as everyone else might be, thinking that AI will eventually replace them. For him, the advent of ChatGPT and other AI models should benefit many peoplein any case, more than we had known before.
“I think AI is going to be the greatest economic empowerment force and many people are going to get rich like we’ve never seen. »
By empowerment, understand empowerment. Somehow he thinks AI is a tool that gives more benefits to everyone to change their social condition, political and economic. AI will thus allow each individual to produce wealth, in one way or another.
To reinforce his position, he uses the economic theory of Joseph Schumpeter: creative destruction. According to this theory, a technological innovation begins first by destroying the pre-established orders, by making obsolete what was done, before generating new opportunities. Thus, those who originally lost their jobs manage to get back on track through new jobs generated by innovation.
It is therefore clear that many jobs will be destroyed by artificial intelligence. But in the long run, this one will generate many others who will make even more rich.
Moreover, even if not everyone has this optimistic look from the CEO of OpenAI, experts still believe that AI will not be long in coming. to devalue certain human skills and to render certain traditional tasks obsolete. A thesis well shared by David Autor, professor of labor economics at MIT:
“The jobs most likely to be impacted are simple tasks like writing basic copy or the first draft of a legal document. These are not specialized skills, and there is no doubt that software will make them cheaper and therefore devalue human labor.”
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A new era begins with ChatGPT and AI in general
Despite the OpenAI CEO’s optimistic outlook on the future, it’s clear that the world won’t be the same. And this is regardless of the impact that artificial intelligence will have on people and their jobs.
According to statements by Oder Netzer, a teacher at Columbia Business School, “From what we’ve seen, it was one of those moments that happen very rarely in technology and innovation, where you experience it and say, ‘the world will never be once more. the same as before”.
The wheel needs to be reinvented.
