For decades, automation has posed a threat to the livelihood of those who worked with their hands. Now, advances in “artificial intelligence” threaten to expose mental work to automation pressures, harming the economic cachet of many careers for which sociology and other social-science departments train students. This paper describes the technology and higher education’s first response to it, along with early ideas about how educators might respond to this technological development.

@misc{cohen2023adapting,
  author       = {Cohen, Joseph Nathan},
  title        = {Adapting to {AI}: How Will Generative {AI} Affect Work? How Should We Respond?},
  year         = {2023},
  howpublished = {SocArXiv preprint},
  doi          = {10.31235/osf.io/ejqan},
  url          = {https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ejqan}
}