Clerical workers most likely to suffer job losses from generative AI: study

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Clerical workers most likely to suffer job losses from generative AI: study

By Reuters
August 21, 2023

Generative AI probably will not take over most people’s jobs entirely but will instead automate a portion of their duties, freeing them up to do other tasks, a United Nations study said Monday.

It warned, however, that clerical work would likely be the hardest hit, potentially hitting female employment harder, given women’s over-representation in this sector, especially in wealthier countries.

An explosion of interest in generative AI and its chatbot applications has sparked fears over job destruction, similar to those that emerged when the moving assembly line was introduced in the early 1900s and after mainframe computers in the 1950s.

However, the study produced by the International Labour Organization concludes that: “Most jobs and industries are only partially exposed to automation and are thus more likely to be complemented rather than substituted by AI.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/21/clerical-workers-most-likely-to-suffer-job-losses-from-generative-ai-study/