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Artificial intelligence will affect 60 million US and Mexican jobs within the year
IDB study shows the impact that AI will have on the labor market. Women and low-skilled workers are more vulnerable to being replaced
Those are compelling numbers, and while they don’t equate to jobs that will be necessarily lost, the fact that AI will impact nearly half of the world’s employment in some way implies that we are looking at a change of a magnitude similar to that which followed the 19th-century industrial revolution. “We recommend a significant investment in education and re-training programs that should focus on developing skills that are complementary to AI, such as in areas of critical thinking, creativity and emotional intelligence,” says Parrado. No analysis has been done on the differences of AI vulnerability by race or origin, but knowing that African Americans and Latinos occupy more low-income jobs, it’s easy to extrapolate that they will be more affected by the development of new technology.
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