, similar to those that emerged when the moving assembly line was introduced in the early 1900s and after mainframe computers in the 1950s. 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.”
The study warned that clerical work would likely be the hardest hit, potentially hitting female employment harder.This means that “the most important impact of the technology is likely to be of augmenting work”, it adds. The occupation likely to be most affected by GenAI – capable of generating text, images, sounds, animation, 3D models and other data – is clerical work, where about a quarter of tasks are highly exposed to potential automation, the study says.Most other professions, like managers and sales workers, are only marginally exposed.Still, the UN agency’s report warned that the impact of generative AI on affected workers could still be “brutal”.
“Therefore, for policymakers, our study should not read as a calming voice, but rather as a call for harnessing policy to address the technological changes that are upon us,” it said.