Microsoft Research researchers have published a study on the application of generative artificial intelligence to various professions.
The professional groups with the highest rate of AI use include media and communications workers, service sales professionals, office and administrative workers working with information and documentation, mathematics and data analysis specialists, teachers and scientists, translators, journalists, editors and copywriters, as well as consultants and.
At the level of specific professions, the highest rates of AI use are recorded, particularly among translators and interpreters, writers and authors, historians, customer service specialists, telemarketers, journalists, technical writers, PR specialists, and data scientists. In all these cases, the contribution of AI primarily relates to working with texts, knowledge, and communication.
The authors emphasize that almost all professions with high AI applicability consist mainly of information work, and that AI tools themselves most often act as consultants, teachers, or assistants rather than as autonomous performers.
At the opposite end of the spectrum are professions where work requires physical interaction with objects or people, manual labor, control of equipment and mechanisms, and the performance of tasks that are difficult to formalize in text or information operations.
