Rage Against the Machine?

Knowing How Technology and Artificial Intelligence Have — and Have Not — Affected Jobs in Recent Decades Offers Insight into How They Could Affect the Future of Work

Tobias Sytsma, Éder M. Sousa

Data VizPublished Oct 11, 2023

The authors explore how technology — especially artificial intelligence (AI) — has affected occupations in the United States in recent history by using natural language processing to sift through technology patents. They assess how AI has shifted exposure, how exposure to technology fluctuates over time, whether new technology reduces the need for human labor, and college degrees and routine cognitive tasks as indicators of exposure.

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Sytsma, Tobias and Éder M. Sousa, Rage Against the Machine? Knowing How Technology and Artificial Intelligence Have — and Have Not — Affected Jobs in Recent Decades Offers Insight into How They Could Affect the Future of Work, RAND Corporation, DV-A2655-1, 2023. As of September 14, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/visualizations/DVA2655-1.html
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Sytsma, Tobias and Éder M. Sousa, Rage Against the Machine? Knowing How Technology and Artificial Intelligence Have — and Have Not — Affected Jobs in Recent Decades Offers Insight into How They Could Affect the Future of Work. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2023. https://www.rand.org/pubs/visualizations/DVA2655-1.html.
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