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Artificial intelligence isn’t just a niche tool for cheating on homework or generating bizarre and deceptive images. It’s already humming along in unseen and unregulated ways that are touching millions of Americans who may never have heard of ChatGPT, Bard or other buzzwords.
A growing share of businesses, schools, and medical professionals have quietly embraced generative AI, and there’s no going back. It is being used to screen job candidates, tutor kids, and give medical advice.
The Biden administration is trying to to assess what kind of rules make sense for the technology. But lawmakers have been slow to figure out how to protect people’s privacy and guard against echoing the human biases baked into much of the data AIs are trained on.
AI has already influenced hiring, particularly at employers using a video interview tool. Hiring technology these days isn’t just screening for keywords on resumes — it’s using powerful language processing tools to analyze candidates’ answers to written and video interview questions.
Employers might wield an algorithm to overrule the on-the-ground judgment their workers have. Hotels are already seeing technology used in this way, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in an interview: Cleaning staff might want to tackle rooms in order, while an algorithm could tell them to prioritize higher-paying clients.
While ChatGPT has roiled academia with concerns about cheating and how to police it, AI is starting to assist K-12 students and teachers with everyday tasks and learning. “The idea is that they’re using it to create,” said Christine Dickinson, technology director at the Maricopa district. “I know that they’re using it at home quite a bit, but our teachers are also being very mindful of the tools that they do have in place to ensure all of the students are, again, creating their own outcomes and not using it just for a replacement for the actual product.”
AI is increasingly becoming a co-pilot for doctors across the country.
When a patient gets an X-ray, AI systems are now assisting physicians in deciphering the images — and some can do it as well as a human, according to recent studies. And they’re already being put to work to measure and improve the performance of radiologists.
**https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/04/how-ai-is-quietly-changing-everyday-life-00138341**

In the past year, and especially the past six months, generative AI has supercharged the potential of technology to help, hinder or reorient how we work. Visual tools like DALL·E 2 and Midjourney may drastically change graphic design. Large language-model text generation, beginning in earnest with the release of ChatGPT, promises to affect every activity that involves touching a keyboard.
Generative AI brings a new dynamic: Primarily, it supports knowledge work by providing the ability to create first drafts of documents, emails, presentations, images, video, product designs, etc.
We are already seeing the rise of digital assistants that speak with a human voice and can use human appearance and social intelligence to negotiate disputes, brainstorm business strategies or conduct interviews. But our research illustrates that people may act less ethically when collaborating via AI.
Today, most organizations suffer from a “digital dexterity gap,” where the workforce is largely unable to keep pace with fast-changing technology. Organizations have more technology than their employees are comfortable using, creating barriers to efficiency and productivity growth. AI services strip away complexity. By using conversational interfaces and natural-language processing, AI removes the need for workers to master complex computer functions and menus. People simply describe what is needed, in nontechnical language, and refine their requests to get better output.
**https://cams.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023-05-15-WSJ-How-AI-Will-Change-the-Workplace.pdf**

**https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmorel/2023/08/31/the-future-of-work-how-will-ai-change-business/?sh=3bd17d5378e7**

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