Report says 35% of the jobs in Virginia may be at risk to artificial intelligence. Southside the least impacted, Northern Virginia the most.

One spring day about 66 million years ago, some dinosaurs probably looked up at the sky and, if their walnut-sized brains could process what their eyes saw, they might have wondered why there was a bright light streaking across the sky.

They sure didn’t understand the consequences, though.

Today, the mammalian species that took dinosaurs’ place as the apex predator on the planet — us — is figuratively in the same place they were, except we’re looking at our computer screens and probably not fully comprehending what we’re seeing headed our way, either.

A recent report that a Charlotte, North Carolina-based research firm conducted for the Virginia Chamber Foundation attempted to quantify how the work landscape is going to change over the coming years. The short version: Artificial intelligence isn’t going to change everything, but it’s going to change a lot.

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