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According to a recent report from the Brookings Institution, thepeople most in danger of losing their jobs to artificialintelligence are those with the most to offer—higher education—andthe most to lose—higher pay.

The study takes a different tack from others that have tried tomeasure AI's effects on the economy – including earlierstudies from Brookings. It uses a process developed by StanfordUniversity researcher and Ph.D. candidate Michael Webb,that analyzes, as Webb puts it, "the overlap between thetext of job task descriptions and the text of patents to constructa measure of the exposure of tasks to automation." (See "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Labormarket.")

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Marlene Satter

Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.

C.J. Marwitz

C.J. Marwitz is a writer and editor.

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