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Official job-task lists lag behind how AI is changing work. NBER researchers including Erik Brynjolfsson built TaskNet from interviews with 132 workers in six occupations, and it covers 89% of tasks named by a separate test group of workers, versus 79% for the O*NET database
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Estimates of which jobs AI will affect rest on accurate task lists, and fresher lists raised exposure for software developers and lawyers, which can shift where retraining money goes.
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