Forty % of employees globally have jobs that will likely be affected by synthetic intelligence, warns a examine by the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF).
Mature economies — such because the European Union, the UK and the US — have even larger publicity, with extra jobs requiring cognitive duties.
The report landed on Sunday, proper earlier than the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) in Davos, the place the rise of synthetic intelligence, and generative AI specifically, will likely be a serious speaking level. Trade-leading executives like OpenAI’s Sam Altman will attend the gathering. The report’s findings should not an official IMF place.
Whereas superior economies have larger publicity to AI, they’re additionally higher positioned to reap its advantages, the examine says.
”In superior economies, about 60 % of jobs are uncovered to AI, because of [the] prevalence of cognitive-task-oriented jobs,” the report says, including that ”of those, about half could also be negatively affected by AI, whereas the remaining may gain advantage from enhanced productiveness by AI integration.”
AI publicity is decrease in rising economies (40 %) and low-income nations (29 %) — however these nations lack the infrastructure and workforce to harness AI advantages, the report says.
The IMF has additionally created an AI-preparedness index, singling out Singapore, the U.S. and Denmark because the best-prepared nations.
A number of EU officers have known as for extra regulation that tackles the usage of AI within the office as a key precedence in the course of the subsequent mandate of the European Fee.
“For me, the subsequent step can be to cope with the function of algorithms within the economic system at giant, particularly on the earth of labor, particularly in the way in which how persons are managed, managed … how the surveillance is operated,” present Jobs Commissioner Nicolas Schmit instructed POLITICO final Might.