Since its release on Nov. 30, 2022, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot called ChatGPT has taken the world by storm with its ability to provide in-depth answers to a variety of questions and seemingly hold meaningful conversations. ChatGPT's resounding success has pushed U.S. software and internet services company Microsoft to expand investment in the technology's developer, U.S. AI research and deployment company OpenAI, as well as integrate the chatbot with its Bing search engine. Since then, U.S. technology company Google, Chinese internet company Baidu and U.S. social media platform Facebook have accelerated their own plans to develop chatbots and other generative AI tools, lest they be left behind. The seeming leaps and bounds that ChatGPT represents in the field of AI are refueling age-old fears about the impact of new technologies on the job market, fears that date back perhaps most memorably to the early 19th-century Luddite movement.