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OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which Jobs Are Getting Steam Engined by AI

OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which Jobs Are Getting Steam Engined by AI

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech While the ability of AI tools to steam engine entire human occupations remains a subject of heated debate, a sobering reality is starting to settle in. Big tech companies are laying off workers in the thousands, with CEOs expecting the worst and predicting soaring employment rates among college graduates — while gleefully cutting costs at their companies and not looking back. Consequently, the subject of which jobs will be at the highest risk of being made redundant by AI tech has received intense interest. Most recently, Andrej Karpathy — an OpenAI cofounder, former AI exec at Tesla, and inventor of “vibe coding” — used Bureau of Labor Statistics data and a heavy dose of AI to rate jobs on a scale of zero to ten, where zero is safe from AI, and 10 is most exposed. After his interactive chart drew plenty of attention, as Fortune notes, Karpathy got cold feet and pulled it down (though an archived …