Panic not. ChatGPT will help you write better but won’t take your job – yet | Torsten Bell

Despite fears that AI will replace workers, research shows that in real work situations humans still have the edge

Artificial intelligence is getting everyone excited. It's going to end or improve the world, depending on your optimism/pessimism. The latest hullabaloo was triggered by the release of ChatGPT - the progression of so called generative AI, which doesn't just analyse data but actually creates new content (in this case written text).

There's been lots of speculation of what this might mean for education (the end of coursework?), but my focus is on the implications for the labour market. Now the first serious research on that front has arrived. Economists conducted an online experiment that saw about 450 professionals complete a writing task of the kind they'd do in their day job, with only some having access to ChatGPT to assist them.

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