Fearing AI, workers go back to school seeking jobs that still need a human touch

ChatGPT hit the internet in November 2022 during Keon Davis’s junior year at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He used it and grew over-reliant, but it also worried him. Davis, who was studying marketing, soon watched it automate tasks he handled in a summer internship, like crafting outreach emails and doing consumer research.

Fearing AI, workers go back to school seeking jobs that still need a human touch

TL;DR

  • ChatGPT was released in November 2022.
  • Keon Davis, a marketing student, became concerned about AI's impact.
  • AI automated tasks like writing emails and consumer research, previously done by Davis in an internship.