In November 30, 2022, OpenAI inaugurated the ChatGPT revolution, a conversational application backed by a generative artificial intelligence model. First free, then enriched with a paid and enhanced version, this solution aims to be able to interpret questions, called “prompts”, and to propose reasoned answers.
At the same time, our deputies and senators were discussing, sometimes in somewhat caricatural terms, a purely accounting pension reform, illustrating the weak capacity of political leaders to think about the question of work from the angle of the profound changes that are coming. Among the many imminent technological developments (robotization, digitization, automation, etc.), artificial intelligence (AI) will undoubtedly be one of the most decisive and structuring for future jobs.
In particular, AI will have a considerable effect on hardship at work: it will reduce hardship for white collar workers, but it will not have the same positive impact for blue collar workers. This technological revolution that is taking place before our eyes could increase the difference in difficulty between workers.
The revolution caused by AI today is analogous to that which Taylorism, qualified as the scientific organization of work, generated at the beginning of the 20th century.e century by generalizing the division of labour, both horizontally (division of tasks) and vertically (hierarchy of tasks). Today, AI solutions help deepen the horizontal division of labor. The future “automatic organization” of work will probably allow man to concentrate on activities on which the machine is the least efficient and relevant, such as creation or decision-making.
The razor of logic
However, it seems that not all workers are equal in the face of this revolution. A study of McKinsey has estimated that graduate workers will be five times more exposed to AI solutions than non-graduate workers. The last study of OpenAI confirms greater exposure to AI from jobs with higher salaries. Some law firms have already integrated this type of technology. Allen & Overy, for example, has announcement the deployment of Harvey, a tool to automate certain legal activities such as contract analysis, compliance checks or litigation, and thus relieve lawyers of the most laborious activities with the least industrial added value, and even intellectual.
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