The new wave of really efficient chatbots like ChatGPT and other tools of artificial intelligence could help with a quick and improved introduction of the much-publicized 4-day work week.
According to some experts, these have the potential to enable a structural reorganization in which human beings would see their workload reduced thanks to the fact that chatbot they will be able to comfortably handle numerous tasks in a variety of sectors.
The reality is that the 4-day workday is already a fact of life at many US companies, and its implementation has accelerated over the past year as pilot programs have yielded promising results.
A six-month trial that began in February 2022 and involved 33 companies found that their revenue was largely flat and, in some cases, increased. If we add to this the facilities and advantages of these chatbots, it is quite likely that the change will be on a large scale.
Experts highlight the potential of AI and ChatGPT to carry it out
Speaking at a conference in Scotland this week, Nobel Prize-winning labor economist Christopher Pissarides suggested that instead of leading to mass redundancies as some fear, he believes the AI revolution could lead to a shorter work week.
“I am very optimistic that we could increase productivity“Pissarides told Bloomberg. “We could increase our well-being in general from work and we could get more [tiempo para] leisure. We could easily go to a four-day week.”
Pissarides, a professor at the London School of Economics and an expert on the effects of automation in the workplace, suggested that AI tools could free human workers from mundane tasks.
“They could cut out a lot of the boring things we do at work… and then just leave the interesting stuff for human beings.”“, said. “Any technology that increases productivity, including ChatGPT, makes a shorter work week more feasible”adds Carl Benedikt Frey, an economist at Oxford, to Business Insider.
In a report released Monday, Goldman Sachs analysts estimated that nearly two-thirds of future American workers could become more productive through the use of AI. They said the widespread adoption of technologies like ChatGPT by at least half of global companies it could boost global GDP by 7%, or roughly $7 trillion, over the next decade.
“While the impact of AI on the labor market is likely to be significant, most jobs and industries are only partially exposed to automation and therefore AI is more likely to complement rather than replace them. “said Goldman Sachs.
The reality is that while big changes are known to be coming, it is still too early to tell to what extent technology—and in this case artificial intelligence or chatbots like ChatGPT—will affect the place of business. job.