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Generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT,\u00a0is causing concern among students and professors about the long-term viability of certain careers, as they engage with AI in professional settings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has confirmed many UCF students’ fears about artificial intelligence’s growing ability to replace entry-level positions that are overwhelmingly relied on by college graduates.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0new study<\/a> from MIT’s\u00a0Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory estimates\u00a0that by 2029, AI will be able to complete writing tasks that would normally take a human 3-4 hours in a matter of minutes, with a 80%-95% success rate of achieving sufficient quality levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n The study cements that these capability improvements to AI would have an impact on the broader labor market by eliminating many entry-level jobs. An additional study from\u00a0Stanford<\/a>\u00a0states that these employment declines have a disproportionate effect on college graduates, ranging from ages 22 to 25.<\/p>\n Alex Tyson, senior in emerging media for animation and visualization,\u00a0has expressed an array of worries regarding what AI could bring to his field and said the\u00a0entertainment industry\u00a0is especially at risk\u00a0to these developments.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI am scared of the practice I am studying being obsolete before I even graduate,\u201d Tyson said in a\u00a0Discord message. \u201cI would have attended YouTube University instead of spending time and money to learn from professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n Tyson is also the president of UCF\u2019s We in Animation club<\/a>,\u00a0a smaller chapter of the international organization dedicated to celebrating underrepresented voices and connecting students with professional development opportunities in animation, according to the organization’s Knight Connect<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve heard from industry professionals that it is the best and the worst of times to be a junior in the field,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cI think in order for us to have long-term viability, we will need to adapt to the landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n MIT’s study does lament that ensuring higher quality or near-perfect production similar to that of humans would require several additional years of development. Furthermore, Stanford reported that\u00a0employment trends for more experienced workers in the same occupation and workers in nonexposed careers have seen steady or continued growth.<\/p>\n MIT’s study comes after the\u00a0White House’s International Technology Summit in March, where first lady Melania Trump walked the red carpet with a human-like robot called Figure 03. During the summit, she attributed this technology to be the future of child education and praised its ability to instill critical thinking alongside analytical reasoning for children,\u00a0according to an article by CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Charge reached out to the UCF Robotics club, a group of students with a passion for building robots,\u00a0according to its Instagram<\/a>, but its officers declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Figure A4 from Stanford’s study<\/a> “Canaries in the Coal Mine?” shows how each age group is being affected by AI-exposed occupations and how college-aged adults are taking the brunt of early exposure.<\/p>\n Joseph Wiedeman<\/p>\n Sebastian de la Chica, an\u00a0applied AI technologist<\/a>\u00a0with over 17 years of experience developing AI capabilities with Microsoft,\u00a0hosted a virtual talk<\/a>\u00a0for UCF students about the Impact of AI in March, where he responded to questions about\u00a0how AI could impact the future labor markets. Chica said data shows worker productivity and stress have increased with the implementation of AI, but says that things are \u201cparticularly messy\u201d\u00a0in the United States, due to a lot of different factors occurring at the same time.<\/p>\n \u201cFor public companies, there is an enormous pressure to do things that ensure profit,\u201d Chica said. \u201cI think of it slightly differently, probably due to what I coped with early in my career, most of the jobs as they exist will probably not require as many people. There will be different jobs, and I don’t know what their titles will be or what they are in, but they will emerge. I try to think of it as upleveling.\u201d<\/p>\n Chica described how many jobs were going to change during this move toward AI, and said there is no telling where many jobs will be, even a year from now.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not the time for quietly quitting stuff, this is a time to keep your eyes open, pay attention\u00a0and be flexible,\u201d Chica said. \u201cIf you think your job is going to be exactly what you thought of maybe a year ago, then yeah, there is a likelihood of that job disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n A report from Anthropic<\/a>\u00a0indicates that upwards of 80% of arts and media job tasks could be exposed to AI. The same report stated that 90% of all business and management job tasks could also theoretically be completed by AI.<\/p>\n Anthropic, an AI safety and research company,\u00a0according to its website<\/a>, puts computer programmers and computer service representatives at the most risk due to their exposure to AI and the repetitive nature of their tasks.<\/p>\n Dr. Wei Sun, associate professor in\u00a0the\u00a0Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the director of Siemens Digital Grid Lab at UCF. He said he sees a decline in the near future for labor markets for certain industries, but predicts that as the tools develop, we will find a need for a variety of talents.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will come back when we figure out what types of talents we need to make better use of AI as the tools get better, which depends on the industry to evolve and for our education system to catch up,\u201d Sun said\u00a0in a text message.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> put out a separate report in 2025 detailing the potential impacts of AI on the job market from 2023 to 2033. The report made projections for careers in computer, legal, business and financial, and architecture\/engineering occupations, finding that each category will grow by about 4% by 2033.<\/p>\n In comparison, the agency’s 2010-2020 expected occupational<\/a> growth chart for the same categories ranged from 10.8% growth to more than 22% by 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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