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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and Lauren Almeida

‘Workforce crisis’: key takeaways for graduates battling AI in the jobs market

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Cambridge University graduates take selfies with Stormzy after the singer received his honorary degree last month. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

ChatGPT can certainly write your university essay – but will it take your job soon after? Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have given rise to fears that the technology will make swathes of the workforce redundant.

Graduates are seen as particularly vulnerable because entry-level jobs such as form-filling and basic data entry are strongly associated with the “drudge work” that AI systems – which perform tasks that typically have required human intelligence – could do instead.

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