Is your job exposed to developments in AI? We asked the experts

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a technology that is on the way. It has arrived.

Within two months of release of ChatGPT in November it had over 100 million active users, making it the fastest growing online consumer application ever.

Its capabilities are remarkable - it can summarise books and generate images in mere seconds - but what effect might it, and tools like it, have on how we work? And which jobs are they likely to impact most?

An academic team in the United States have been trying to answer those questions.

The researchers from Princeton, New York and Pennsylvania universities analysed which workplace abilities were mostly closely related to those exhibited by AI systems like ChatGPT, called large language models.

They then calculated which of 800 specific occupations are most exposed by evaluating the abilities most important for those roles.

Their recently released paper ranks those occupations from most to least exposed, concluding that "highly educated, hi...
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