The [nursing] apps show that AI’s impact on jobs isn’t limited to ones where the tech might entirely replace people, said Katie Wells, a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute.
“This is my attempt to push back on the displacement debates,” Wells, one of the report’s authors, told Business Insider.
Nurses, whose jobs often require physical work, specialized knowledge, and quick thinking when someone’s health is on the line, aren’t as likely to be immediately displaced by AI as people in other professions might be, according to the report, titled “Uber for Nursing: Part II.”
People need healthcare in good economies and bad ones. And the need for nurses is expected to grow as the US population ages. That’s led some to point to nursing as a relatively secure job option, especially as AI upends careers in other sectors, such as tech.
Still, the gig-work apps for nursing share parallels with Uber and other established gig-work apps, Wells said. For both groups of apps, algorithms play a prominent role in how users work, from determining pay to handling potential account deactivations, she said.
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