Measuring the Occupational Impact of AI: Tasks, Cognitive Abilities and AI Benchmarks (Extended Abstract)*
Measuring the Occupational Impact of AI: Tasks, Cognitive Abilities and AI Benchmarks (Extended Abstract)*
Songül Tolan, Annarosa Pesole, Fernando Martínez-Plumed, Enrique Fernández-Macías, José Hernández-Orallo, Emilia Gómez
Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Journal Track. Pages 5777-5781.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/809
We present a framework for analysing the impact of AI on occupations. This framework maps 59 generic tasks from different occupational datasets to 14 cognitive abilities and these to a comprehensive list of 328 AI benchmarks used to evaluate research intensity in AI. The use of cognitive abilities as an intermediate layer allows for an identification of potential AI exposure for tasks for which AI applications have not been explicitly programmed. We provide insights into the abilities through which AI is most likely to affect jobs, and we show how some of the abilities where AI research is currently very intense are linked to tasks with comparatively limited labour input in the labour markets of advanced economies.
Keywords:
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairness: Societal Impact of AI
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairness: Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues
Machine Learning: Evaluation
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Economics