The White Collar Revolution
The major areas of AI innovation automate white-collar work. Reviewing the BLS’ data on employment for white collar work, I aggregated the data to these categories.
It’s striking that most of them already have a significant number of AI startups pursuing their ambitions to change workflows.
Software engineers were the first to benefit with Copilot. Today, there’s a panoply of different kinds of AI software for developers, including test generation, code refactoring, code generation, & security analysis.
Within education, The promise of computer adaptive testing and an individualized tutor and the style of Alexander the Great & Aristotle is possible.,
Automated document ingestion & reconciliation for closing books is changing accounting. AI powered financial due diligence rips through public filings, private placement memoranda, & compliance automation.
Legaltech has surged automating demand letters for personal injury, writing briefs for attorneys, & chomping away paralegal work.
We could keep iterating through the list. But if a founder wanted a list of jobs to automate, the BLS’ white collar jobs boards is a wonderful place to start. AI will change these workflows & capture a meaningful fraction of the labor spend.
It’s a roadmap for the White Collar Revolution.
Senior Director, Center of Excellence; MBA
1 天前The outstanding question is to what degree AI will automate or augment jobs. Klarna fully automated many customer support jobs. I advise a lot of marketers whose jobs are staying put, but they're doing more: more segments addressed, more personalized tactics, etc.
CEO at PRAY.COM
1 周Tomasz Tunguz ????
Strategic Customer Executive| Driving Revenue Growth, Maximizing Retention, and Innovating New Services & Support
1 周It's very interesting, there are two industries that stick out to me. Education and law, which have long been resistant to change, AI’s promise of individualized learning and automated legal assistance is both revolutionary and challenging. The balance between enhancing productivity and preserving essential human oversight will be critical as we embrace this white-collar revolution. I would be curious to hear your take Woody Klemetson ??
Blue collar, white collar and, soon to be, “grAy-I” collar positions in the economy.