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Researchers developed an EPOCH score to assess AI's impact on jobs.

Jobs requiring empathy, creativity and social skills are less likely to be replaced.

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

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 U.S. 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,

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