India, Dec. 31 -- Shane Legg, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, has warned that the accelerating development of artificial intelligence could significantly reduce remote jobs and work-from-home arrangements.

Speaking in a recent interview with Professor Hannah Fry, Legg argued that AI's rapid progress toward human-level intelligence will disproportionately affect roles that can be performed entirely online using cognitive skills, according to TheFinancial Express.

"Jobs that are purely cognitive and done remotely via a computer are particularly vulnerable," Legg said.

Legg noted that the disruption will be uneven across industries. Digital-heavy roles-including those involving language, knowledge work, coding, math...