Report analyzes the impact of AI on job supply and demand.
A new report from the International Labor Organization (ILO) has claimed that the emergence of AI in prevalent use on the labor market could actually augment jobs rather than fully automate and take them away.
The report details how many jobs are only partly exposed to automation, and that the introduction of such technology as Chat GPT into the working environment not only will but cannot fully substitute the need for human involvement.
Clerical work was found to be the profession with the highest exposure risk, with fully a quarter of affiliated tasks considered at risk of high exposure to automation and around half of tasks at medium exposure risk. Managerial work was the area least exposed to automation, unsurprisingly, with only a very small number of tasks at risk of automation supplanting and only a quarter at medium exposure level.
The report analyzes the global marketplace and concludes that in countries with near-total employment levels, the risk of automative exposure to current employment levels is only around 5.5%, while poorer countries with a lower income base, exposure level is even less at 0.4%. Some businesses have even successfully utilized the new technology to boost job efficiency in their respective workplaces.
Interestingly, the report concludes that women are at higher risk than men in exposure levels to automation as a considerably higher percentage of the former than the latter work in clerical positions.
The report ends with the conclusion for the need that any transition from manual to automated labor be done in a gradual, pragmatic, and orderly way to ensure potential chaos be averted. The report also states that worker’s voices, rights, and social protections are at the heart of any policies regarding AI technology transitions in the wider labor marketplace.
