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AI could impact 500,000 Minnesota jobs, report warns

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A ChatGPT prompt is shown on a device near a public school in Brooklyn, New York.
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Artificial intelligence, or AI, is continuing to change the way we work and live, and hundreds of thousands of Minnesota workers may soon feel the impact.

That’s according to a new report released Thursday from North Star Policy Action, a pro-union think tank. It characterizes 17 percent of Minnesota’s workforce as “high risk” to AI’s impacts.

North Star Policy Action’s research director Aaron Rosenthal spoke with MPR News host Tom Crann about the findings.

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