SALT LAKE CITY — These days, a lot of workers have been asking themselves whether AI is coming for their jobs.

Computational social scientist Isabella Loaiza saw that fear in the people around her and with another MIT researcher, economist Roberto Rigobon, looked for answers – not from AI, but from the human side of the equation.

Working with a US Department of Labor database, O*Net , a list of more than 900 jobs and 19,000 individual tasks performed at those jobs, they devised what they called an EPOCH score, a measure of human traits needed in each job – E for empathy, P for physical presence, O for opinion or judgement, C for creativity and H for hope or leadership.

They came up with a measure of how much AI might be used to augment each job and then calculated a measure of the ri

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