from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 20 May 2025 16:38
https://sh.itjust.works/post/38364845
Jobs traditionally done by women are more vulnerable to the impact of artificial intelligence than those done by men, especially in high-income countries, a report by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization showed on Tuesday.
It found 9.6 per cent of traditionally female jobs were set to be transformed compared with 3.5 per cent of those carried out by men as AI increasingly takes on administrative tasks and transforms clerical jobs, such as secretarial work.
Human involvement will still be required for many tasks, and roles are more likely to be radically changed rather than eliminated, the report said.
“We stress that such exposure does not imply the immediate automation of an entire occupation, but rather the potential for a large share of its current tasks to be performed using this technology,” the report said.
Here’s the study … ilo.org/…/one-four-jobs-risk-being-transformed-ge…
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It wouldn’t be a problem if people didn’t have to work to live.
Absolutely, I keep idly thinking about it and universal basic income seems to be the only way we can maintain order, but it’s obviously never going to happen.
This is gonna get worse before it gets better.
I hate to tell you, but it isn’t going to get better. Climate change is going to absolutely decimate humanity. People will be fighting to live in places with fewer issues. That’s going to mean crazy amounts of discrimination and totalitarian governments. Our opportunity for utopia won’t come around again for 1000 years after most of us are dead and human population is a much more manageable size.
So you’re saying it will get better
There might be an opportunity for it to get better in 1000 years once everyone dies off, assuming we can avoid feudalism. So, don’t hold your breath.
This is the second article I remember reading saying that it expects greater automation in high income professions. If so, then it’ll tend to lead to income range compression rather than expansion, which might be an interesting outcome.