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The latest advances in AI are likely to make some jobs redundant, transform others and create new ones. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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The launch of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022 has stoked longstanding fears of technology displacing jobs. 

This time, it is not just white-collar workers performing routine tasks who seem at imminent risk. With AI now able to compose stories, songs and artwork with human-like sophistication, members of the creative class – writers, artists and musicians – are suddenly in AI’s crosshairs. 

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