LONDON (Reuters) - Generative artificial intelligence is unlikely to completely take over most people's jobs, but it will automate part of their duties, allowing them to take on other tasks, a United Nations study said on Monday.
The study warned that clerical work will likely be the most affected, and is likely to cause greater harm to women's jobs, given the large proportion of women who work in this sector, especially in richer countries.
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• The study prepared by the International Labor Organization concluded that "most jobs and industries are only partially susceptible to automation, and therefore are likely to be supplemented rather than replaced by artificial intelligence."
• This means that "the most important impact of technology is likely to be increased work".
• According to the study, clerical work will be the profession most affected by generative artificial intelligence, which is capable of producing texts, images, sounds, animations, 3D models and other data, and it is expected that a quarter of work tasks will be highly vulnerable to potential automation.
• The study stated that most other professions, such as managers and sales workers, are only marginally exposed.
• The UN agency's report warns that the impact of generative AI on affected workers will continue to be "distressing".
• The ILO added, "For policymakers, our study should not be read as a soothing voice, but rather as an invitation to harness policy to address the technological changes we face."
Growing interest in generative AI and chatbot applications has raised fears of job destruction, similar to what happened with the advent of moving assembly lines in the early 20th century and after the advent of mainframe computers in the 1950s.
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