An International Labour Organization study says AI is unlikely to destroy jobs, but in a study they found admin workers and women face a greater risk of their jobs being replaced by the tech. In high-income countries, 7.8% of jobs held by women are at risk of potentially being automated, that’s around 21 million jobs. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
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00:00An international labor organization study says AI is unlikely to destroy jobs.
00:06But in their study, they found admin workers and women face a greater risk of their jobs being replaced by the tech.
00:14In high-income countries, 7.8% of jobs held by women are at risk of potentially being automated.
00:22That's around 21 million jobs.
00:24Meanwhile, 2.9% of jobs in high-income countries held by men, around 9 million jobs, face the potential of being automated, reports Insider.
00:35The highest risk is seen in clerical support workers.
00:3858% of their tasks face a medium exposure to the technology.
00:43But even though some could eventually be automated, the study says the greatest impact of this technology is likely to not be job destruction,
00:52but rather the potential changes to the quality of jobs, notably work intensity and autonomy.