According to The Hill, a new report from Democratic staff on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee—led by Sen. Bernie Sanders—warns that AI and automation could displace nearly 100 million jobs across a wide range of industries over the next decade.
As part of the investigation, committee staff turned to ChatGPT to gauge how AI might reshape different sectors. It identified 20 workforces as being most vulnerable, projecting that 15 of them could see more than half of their employees replaced by automation and AI within ten years.
Among the hardest hit, the report finds, will be fast-food and counter service workers. It estimates that more than 3 million positions—about 89% of the total workforce in that category—could be replaced within the next decade as automation expands.
Beyond the food service sector, the report points to other occupations likely to face significant disruption, including customer service representatives, laborers and freight, stock and material movers and secretaries and executive assistants—excluding those in legal, medical, and executive fields.
