AI is unlikely to destroy your job unless you're doing administrative work — about a quarter of such tasks could be lost to the tech.Guillaume/Getty Images Artificial intelligence is unlikely to destroy jobs, per the International Labour Organization. However, in high-income countries, 21 million jobs held by women have the potential to be automated. 3% of jobs in high-income countries held by men face the potential of being automated. Amid growing fears across sectors of being replaced by AI, a new study by the International Labour Organization, or ILO, published on Monday finds admin workers and women face a greater risk of their jobs being replaced by the tech.The effects of automation are "highly gendered, with more than double the share of women potentially affected by automation," per the study.In high-income countries, 7.8% of jobs held by women have the potential to be automated — which the ILO estimates to be around 21 million jobs.In contrast, 2.9% of jobs in high-income countries held by men — or around 9 million jobs — face the potential of being automated, as shown in the graf below.International Labour Organization graph on jobs with automation potentialInternational Labour OrganizationClerical support workers also face the greatest risk of being affected by AI.
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