From a worker’s perspective, what are the biggest opportunities and risks that AI and automation present to employment, wages, job security and working conditions?
VU AI and automation present both significant opportunities and substantial risks for workers. Their impact will depend less on the technology itself and more on how society chooses to deploy and govern it. The greatest opportunity is the possibility of liberating workers from repetitive, dangerous and physically exhausting work. If machines can undertake hazardous operations, repetitive processing or tasks requiring continuous monitoring, workers can increasingly move towards activities requiring judgement, creativity, problem-solving, communication and human interaction. AI can also create entirely new occupations and skill requirements in areas such as data, robotics, cyber security, AI supervision, machine maintenance, digital services and human-machine collaboration. Technology can therefore improve occupational safety, increase productivity and potentially create...
