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MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce (www.cnbc.com)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday released a study that found that artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, or as much as $1.2 trillion in wages across finance, health care and professional services.

The study was conducted using a labor simulation tool called the Iceberg Index, which was created by MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The index simulates how 151 million U.S. workers interact across the country and how they are affected by AI and corresponding policy

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Breaking news 11.7% of the work force are doing useless work, work that leadership has no idea how essential it is, and some that a normalized response of text or semantic searching can be replaced with.