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NEW DELHI: AI largely impacts jobs that can be automated – such as services or coding – but Cognizant’s head of research Ollie O’Donoghue believes that almost everyone may be at risk. He said, as quoted by Fortune, “Nobody’s safe.”
O’Donoghue claimed that even the jobs of electricians or plumbers will need to evolve in the age of AI. While plumbers will still need to do repairs, a lot can be done by AI soon. He said, “You’ll still need someone to turn the wrench, no doubt, but the actual process of plumbing and the value that’s added will change a little bit.”
As per the report “a multimodal reasoning agent today could notice a damp patch on a wall, infer a leaking joint, draft a repair plan and even generate an invoice or parts list”. It added that “the plumber still fixes the pipe, but the inspection, diagnosis and supportive actions that lead up to or follow it can increasingly be assisted by AI.” According to the report, average exposure to AI scores across occupations are now 30 per cent higher than what it had forecast for 2032. While its original analysis pointed to an average 2 per cent annual increase in exposure scores, the latest update puts that rise at 9 per cent a year.
The company said this could mean about $4.5 trillion (roughly Rs 427 lakh crore) worth of labour shifting from humans to AI in the US alone.
While the report does ring alarm bells over the future of current jobs, Cognizant chief business officer of AI Sushant Warikoo, claims that we may see new “value pools” being created thanks to AI.
