Church clergy among jobs most at risk from AI chatbots
The TelegraphMen of the cloth have persevered for millennia, surviving the separation of church and state, the industrial revolution and multiple world wars. A Department for Education study examining the impact of systems such as ChatGPT on the jobs market has concluded that the religiously ordained are in the top 20 professions most likely to be affected by AI. Clergy members were ranked as the 13th most exposed to “large language model” systems out of the 365 categories of occupation studied. They were deemed slightly less likely to be affected than local government administrators, but slightly more vulnerable than university lecturers. The study may have missed unique aspects of individual professions and the research does not speculate how precisely the technology could influence each job.