Former President Barack Obama shared his thoughts on the prevalence of AI as part of the Sacerdote Great Names Series at Hamilton College, held on Thursday, April 3, in Clinton, NY. During a talk with Steven Tepper, the school’s president, Obama gave his opinion about the roles he predicts will decline due to AI, as stated by AFROTECH.
Obama said that AI is outperforming the majority of human coders and that roles involving more routine tasks will no longer be essential.
AI outperforming human coders
“Already the current models of AI, not necessarily the ones that you purchase or that you just get through the retail ChatGPT, but the more advanced models that are available now to companies, they can code better than let’s call it 60%, 70% of coders now,” the former president said.
“We’re talking highly skilled jobs that pay really good salaries and that up until recently has been entirely a seller’s market in Silicon Valley. A lot of that work is going to go away. The best coders will be able to use these tools to augment what they already do, but for a lot of routine stuff you just won’t need a coder because the computer or the machine will do it itself. That’s going to duplicate itself across professions,” he added.
AI divide is widening the racial gap
Though AI is becoming increasingly popular in workplaces and businesses, people of colour are being left behind. A McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility study found that the AI divide could widen the racial wealth gap by $43 million annually.
Latinx workers in California are at high risk of losing their jobs due to growing automation, the use of technology to perform repetitive tasks without human involvement. According to a new report by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Latine workers are overrepresented in occupations most vulnerable to automation, such as agricultural laborers, construction laborers, landscaping workers and cooks.
Research from the National Skills Coalition found that 57% of currently employed Latine people aged 16 to 64 had little to no digital skills, compared to a US average of 31%, as stated in the report.
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