He checks all the boxes of the “solid profession”: graduate, technical, valued. And yet, according to the experts, it is the one that most risks being swallowed by artificial intelligence.
The reports on AI are not upset. The latest, signed Microsoft, is based on 200,000 real conversations between workers and Copilot, the company AI assistant, to draw up a very current inventory: certain tasks, certain trades, certain skills are already very compatible with the capacities of artificial intelligences. What cause cold sweats in several sectors.
In the lines of the report, an observation emerges: the so -called “knowledge” jobs are those who find themselves at the top of the list. Not the deliverers or the workers, but the graduate profiles, those which are often associated with a certain professional stability. We find teachers, authors, journalists, historians, salespeople, analysts, correctors. In short, all those whose work is based on language, research, writing or analysis. The famous “white passes”, the CSP +.
However, the authors of the study temper. Kiran Tomlinson, researcher at Microsoft and principal of the report, insists: “Our study explores the job categories that can use IA chatbots in a productive way; it does not provide proof that AI can replace jobs.” What AI does, for the moment, is biting into certain pieces of human work, not the entire position. She knows how to write an email, summarize a text, generate a report, translate an instruction. But can it manage a project, make a delicate decision, understand an unsaid or improvise a solution to an unexpected? Not yet.
This is what worries part of the professional world. Because even if the report does not provide for an imminent disappearance of the jobs concerned, companies already see where they can save. And some take action. Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an American firm specializing in social plans, reports that more than 10,000 positions have been eliminated this year in the United States because of the adoption of generative AI technologies. Officially. Behind the scenes, the figure could be much higher. And among the most threatened professions, a particular job, stands out: performer/translator.
According to Microsoft, it is the profession most exposed to overlapping with the current AI capabilities. Where other tasks are only partially concerned, those of this profession would already be largely achievable by tools like Copilot or Chatgpt. Case to follow.
