India, Feb. 13 -- Matt Shumer, CEO of AI startup HyperWrite, has joined a growing list of experts warning that the future of white-collar, screen-based jobs may be highly vulnerable to automation.

In an essay published on his social media page titled "Something Big Is Happening," Shumer argues that AI systems are rapidly acquiring the ability to perform tasks that are digital, structured, and repetitive.

Shumer suggests that AI is currently in a similar "this seems overblown" phase, but warns that the shift could be far more transformative than COVID.

"I think the honest answer is that nothing that can be done on a computer is safe in the medium term," he wrote. "If your job happens on a screen - if the core of what you do is reading, ...