The anxiety that workers feel about advances in artificial intelligence is completely understandable—but often misplaced. 

Based on task-level analysis of over 800 occupations, a deep dive look at 6,800 skills, and expert surveys, our research team at the McKinsey Global Institute estimate that the tasks which fill more than half of all U.S. work hours can, in theory, be automated with technologies that already exist. The silver lining is that AI cannot—and will not—completely replace the jobs of the people who complete those tasks for a living. Instead, work will change, and workers will adapt.

More than 70% of the skills employers seek today are relevant in both automatable and non-automatable work. This means most human abilities will remain useful, but how and where they........

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