Las Vegas; Miami; Louisville, Kentucky; Orlando, Florida; and Grand Rapids, Michigan top the list of cities at greatest risk of losing jobs to artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report from the Chamber of Commerce, a business research company.
The report evaluated 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas for potential job loss impact due to automation, based on data from the World Economic Forum and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rice University AI experts Fred Oswald and Moshe Vardi are available to comment on the report’s findings.
Oswald, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and a professor of psychological sciences, studies AI and machine learning in the context of organizational and workforce research.
"AI and technology in general may be taking certain jobs away, and yet we also see how it is changing the nature of jobs and even organizations and professions,” Oswald said. “In the ever-changing arena of AI, employees, job-seekers and students will continue to adapt and learn new job skills that align with and anticipate workforce needs."
Vardi, the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, researches automated reasoning, databases, computational complexity theory, design specification and verification.
“During the late 2010s, AI and jobs were the topics I was most often asked to talk about,” Vardi said. “The pandemic disrupted that, but now this topic is coming back.”
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