A new study of white-collar professionals by the Department of Education has looked at who faces the biggest threat from large language models (we are talking generative AI here).
Chartered and certified accountants appear at number 46 on the list, sandwiched between barristers and judges (45) and call and contact centre occupations (47). Interestingly, bookkeepers, payroll managers and wages clerks are number 52 on the list.
In all the study numbers 365 jobs and those least likely to have their job taken by AI are roofers, steel erectors and fork-lift truck drivers (we aren’t sure about that last one!).
So, who is most at threat? Well the study says the top five professions most at risk are: telephone salespersons, solicitors, psychologists, FE teaching professional and market and street traders!
