, we found that a majority of our respondents, over 55 percent said that their jobs had not been impacted by AI. However, another majority, again over 52 percent, said that they were concerned that their roles at their employer could be “fully automated” by the emerging technology.
“For the other half, AI applications may execute key tasks currently performed by humans, which could lower labour demand, leading to lower wages and reduced hiring. In the most extreme cases, some of these jobs may disappear.”There are already some job types that are disappearing, with the likes of IBM looking to cut 30 percent of customer-facing jobs at the huge corporation and
Described as the ‘foremost expert on the digital economy in the world,’ Erik Brynjolfsson, director at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, puts this situation quite well in a TV news interview with CBS. “But I like to use the word ‘affected’ not ‘replaced’ because I think if done right, it won’t be AI replacing lawyers, it’s going to be lawyers working with AI replacing lawyers who don’t work with AI.