ChatGPT isn’t good enough to take jobs and is unlikely to cause mass layoffs: ‘The hot takes have run into reality’

• Big Technology is a weekly newsletter about tech and society by independent journalist Alex Kantrowitz. 
• Kantrowitz writes that AI is still not good enough to handle most jobs. 
• He also says to read announcements of companies replacing workers with AI skeptically. 

It was so over. Remember? As soon as artificial intelligence began to read, write, and code, all manner of professions were supposed to automate — fast. Lawyers were toast. Entry-level engineers commodified. And journalists, well, it’s a small miracle we’re writing this story.

And yet, eight months after the release of ChatGPT — and several years since the advent of other AI business tools — the fallout’s been muted. AI is being widely adopted, but the imagined mass firings haven’t materialized. The United States is still effectively at full employment, with just 3.5 percent of the workforce unemployed.