AI is coming for your job — or at least part of it.
A January study from IT services company Cognizant, which analyzed 18,000 workplace tasks, found that 93% of jobs are affected by AI to some degree. In the US, that could result in roughly $4.5 trillion of human labor shifting to AI — and it’s happening at a faster rate than expected.
Cognizant projected in 2023 that 90% of jobs would be impacted by 2032. Now, a slightly elevated level of disruption is arriving about six years ahead of schedule. The pace of exposure has surged, too. Instead of rising 2% annually, it’s now accelerating at closer to 9%, the report found, with AI’s potential impact across occupations coming in 30% higher than earlier estimates.
While there are plenty of concerning predictions about AI replacing jobs entirely, there’s also the possibility that the technology will allow many workers to spend more time on certain tasks and offload others to AI.
Given the assumption that AI is going to take at least some part of your job — if it hasn’t already — we want to know what you would be happy to pass off, and what tasks you want to keep.
A massive winter storm is battering the US this weekend, bringing heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain to millions of Americans.
The storm, which is set to stretch over 2,000 miles from New Mexico to Maine, hit the south-central US on Friday night and has since been making its way eastward.
The National Weather Service (NWS) warned it would move into the Mid-Atlantic states on Saturday night before pushing into the Northeast late on Sunday, leading to “considerable impacts” to much of the eastern half of the US.
Here’s where the storm is set to hit hardest.
Impact of the storm on Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Heavy snow is continuing to fall across large parts of the US on Sunday morning, but it is expected to concentrate in eastern regions by the evening.
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The NWS has predicted that more than 12 inches could fall from the Ohio Valley through the northern mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Sunday, with almost double that possible in parts of New England and the inner Northeast.
The agency said power outages, tree damage, and dangerous travel conditions are also likely across parts of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic as a result of freezing rains and lingering icing.
Major cities in the weather system’s projected path include Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she had “authorized all state employees to work remotely on Monday” in an effort to reduce travel.
“I encourage other employers to do the same, just to keep people off the roads and think about this,” she said.
Some of the worst hit states so far include Arkansas, where some areas recorded around seven inches of snowfall through Friday night into Saturday.
The NWS said the state had so far experienced “wave one” of the storm, with a second wave due to hit overnight into Sunday.
Oklahoma, which saw several inches of snow on Friday night, was also bracing for a second round of snow into Sunday.
Speaking to Fox News on Saturday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt said the state could deal with the snow and that he was more concerned with power outages.
More than 430,000 customers from New Mexico to Kentucky are without power as of Sunday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
An American Airlines plane pictured during the winter storm.
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Moving forward, the NWS said heavy snowfall is likely to lead to “widespread travel disruptions and closures” that could last a number of days.
Travel has already been hit hard this weekend, with airlines canceling thousands of flights across Saturday and Sunday.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International are the worst affected airports on Sunday, per flight-tracking site FlightAware.
Many airlines are waiving rebooking fees for flights to and from affected regions.
Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency, GUR, has identified over a dozen American and Chinese electronics parts that it says were found in a new Russian jet-powered attack drone.
GUR published its new analysis of the drone, dubbed the Geran-5, on Monday, as part of its ongoing directory of key foreign components used in Russia’s weapons or defense industry.
The intelligence directorate published images of what it said was the drone’s wreckage last week, saying that the Geran-5 was newly discovered after being used in an attack in early January.
Shaped like a traditional fixed-wing aircraft, the Geran-5 differs from past Gerans, which are delta-wing aircraft modeled after the Iranian Shahed drone.
GUR said last week that the Geran-5 closely resembles Iran’s Karrar uncrewed aerial vehicle, which in turn is believed to be modeled after the much older American MQM-107 Streaker attack drone.
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At least nine of the Geran-5’s parts were produced by American companies, including digital signal processors, clock generators, and a transceiver, GUR said.
GUR said the drone also features a more powerful Chinese turbojet engine, allowing the Geran-5 to fly at up to 373 mph — much faster than the jet-powered Geran-3’s estimated 230 mph.
Three other parts, including a mesh network radio modem that retails for $8,100, were also sourced from China, GUR added.
One part on the list — the Geran-5’s transistor — is German.
GUR published an image of what appears to be gathered debris from a downed Geran-5.
Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR)
Ukraine often warns that Russia’s military production base has been successfully evading international sanctions at a scale that allows it to manufacture a deep arsenal with foreign parts. Kyiv has long sought to compel international firms to introduce stringent due diligence programs to prevent their products from entering the black market.
GUR said in its initial report that the Geran-5 likely has a range of 600 miles and can carry a 200-pound warhead. The agency also said it had information indicating that Russia may seek to deploy the Geran-5 from Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jets, rather than from typical ground-based launchers, to extend its reach.
“Separately, the possibility of equipping the aircraft with R-73 air-to-air missiles to counter Ukrainian aviation is being considered,” the agency said.
The Geran drone family has come to describe loitering munitions that were based on Iranian designs but tweaked to be manufactured within Russia. Previous Gerans have taken inspiration from Tehran’s Shahed, and they’re so similar that they are often colloquially seen as synonymous.
The earlier Gerans are now one of Russia’s staple weapons against Ukraine, with the Kremlin manufacturing so many that it can afford to launch thousands of attack drones a month at Ukrainian cities.
Jet-powered versions of the Geran have been used more sparsely, though Ukrainian reports of the Geran-3’s use have grown increasingly common over the last year.
