In the face of COVID-19 to keep workers safe and continue operations, companies have ramped up remote work and are aggressively automating some operations and exploring machine learning (ML). Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, director of Stanford HAI's Digital Economy Lab, along with scientists from CMU and MIT, have identified tasks most suitable for ML. While more tasks in lower wage jobs could be replaced by ML, no occupation is immune. "After the pandemic, we're going to have a new economy that has a lot more people doing remote work and a lot more using machine learning," Brynjolfsson said. Link