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financial associated press, september 30 (editor zhou ziyi)there are many different voices on whether artificial intelligence (ai) will take jobs away from humans.

many leaders and thinkers in the tech industry have been repeating this sentiment: ai won't replace your job, but the people who know how to use ai will.

recently, openai ceo sam altman also pointed out in an interview that students who are worried that artificial intelligence will replace them should work harder to learn to use this technology.

"i believe there will be a lot of jobs in the future, and many of them will look different than the jobs of today, but it seems like we will never run out of things to do," altman said.

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a new study from indeed, the world's largest job search platform, supports altman's view. of the 2,800 job skills studied, none are immediately at risk of being decimated by ai on a large scale.

of the thousands of skills assessed, the majority (69%) had a "very low" or "low" chance of being replaced by generative ai, with more than a quarter (29%) having a "very low" chance of being replaced by generative ai in the future. likely” to be replaced by generative ai; and no job was considered “highly likely” to be replaced by ai.

whether it will be replaced depends on the physical and hands-on requirements of this work skill. for example, in cooking, the practicality of artificial intelligence will be greatly limited; at the same time, including marketing, advertising, software development, health care jobs such as administrative support, insurance claims, and recruitment are more than 50% likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence "to some extent," but this also emphasizes the importance of human workers continuing to improve their skills and learn;the profession most at risk right now is accounting, nearly 78% of skills rated as “likely” or “very likely” to be replaced by generative ai.

svenja gudell, indeed's chief economist, noted that upskilling can bring big benefits, but it's not "magic." as technology advances, some people may still lose their jobs, so "they have to figure out how to use these tools, and that's not easy."

however, a few days ago silicon valley investor vinod khosla disagreed with altman's optimistic view.

khosla warned that artificial intelligence will one day be able to take on 80% of all job types and perform 80% of the businesses in these jobs. he also said that unlike previous waves of technology, people may not be able to prevent job losses by simply building their skills.

while people are worried about how artificial intelligence will impact the job market, many seem to be doing one thing — delving deeper into the technology, as altman puts it.