Long story short: Will robots take over the workplace? How to use tech for good

By Alyssa Place, This is my expertise
Published Updated 2 Min Read

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Employees are attached to their tech, and it’s continuously changing how work gets done. 

In this week’s top stories, new tools like ChatGPT are revolutionizing how people engage with their day-to-day tasks. The artificial intelligence-powered chatbot can actually write emails, scan documents and build presentations, potentially saving employees time from these menial tasks. Yet where should employers draw the line? 

It might sound too good to be true, but a tech-driven future is closer than you may think. In November of 2021, artificial intelligence company OpenAI launched ChatGPT, an interactive chatbot that can fulfill a number of tasks for its user, from typing out a text response for someone to coming up with an entire dissertation on any given subject. Once the command is put in, the chatbot takes mere minutes to complete the task. 

“You won’t have to train people to do certain things anymore, but rather train them how to use AI tools to do those things,” says Ricardo Michel Reyes, chief science officer and co-founder of AI company, Erudit. Those capabilities can be applied to the workplace — Reyes regularly uses AI-powered assistants to respond to his work emails or read long reports and spotlight key points. He tells associate editor Paola Peralta how these tools could help improve productivity and efficiency in the workplace. 

Alyssa Place
Editor-in-chief

Alyssa Place is the editor-in-chief of Employee Benefit News and has been with the team since 2019. Her work covers mental health, DEI, women at work, financial wellness, retirement and workplace … Read full bio


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