Chamber of Commerce, a business research company, ranked the 50 most populated metropolitan areas in the U.S. based on projected AI job loss using data from the World Economic Forum. The company also analyzed U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data to estimate the three fastest declining occupations in each city.
With 381,910 of Houston's 3,054,460 jobs on the chopping block by 2027 because of automation, Bayou City was ranked the 31st worst metro area in the country in terms of projected AI job loss.
The three fastest declining occupations in Houston were office and administrative support positions as well as sales and office clerks. More than 157,000 Houston jobs between these three occupations are expected to be eliminated within the next five years.
Las Vegas was ranked the worse metropolitan area in the country for projected AI job loss. Almost 16 percent of Sin City's 1,024,390 jobs are at risk of being automated by 2027.
The World Economic Forum predicted approximately 83 million jobs worldwide could be lost as a result of AI during the next five years, according to Chamber of Commerce. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs extrapolated that AI could expose as many as 300 million jobs to automation in the future.
The proliferation of AI has come to the forefront of the ongoing labor disputes between Hollywood and both the Writers Guild of America and the SAG-AFTRA.
At the largest SAG-AFTRA rally since the union went on strike mid-July, Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston called out Disney CEO Bob Iger for using AI technology while speaking last week in Times Square.
"I know, sir, that you look through things from a different lens," Cranston said. "We don't expect you to understand who we are but we ask you to hear us, and beyond that, to listen to us when we tell you we will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots."
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