The experience tech workers had of AI going from helpful tool to doing their job better than they do will happen to workers in law, finance, medicine, accounting, consulting, writing, design, analysis, and customer service within one to five years.

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The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from 'helpful tool' to 'does my job better than I do', is the experience everyone else is about to have. Law, finance, medicine, accounting, consulting, writing, design, analysis, customer service. Not in ten years. The people building these systems say one to five years. Some say less.

Mass displacement of workers across professional service industries would cause broad economic disruption, unemployment, and social upheaval for tens of millions of people.

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