IMF: AI will affect about 40% of jobs worldwide, with jobs with higher skill requirements having greater impact

Recently, according to domestic media reports, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Georgieva, said that according to the latest research of the IMF, artificial intelligence will affect about 40% of the world's jobs.

The IMF report mentioned that nearly 40% of global jobs will be affected by artificial intelligence. Historically, automation and information technology tend to affect process tasks, but what makes artificial intelligence different is that it has the ability to affect high-skilled jobs.

Thus, advanced economies face greater risks from AI than emerging market and developing economies, but also have greater opportunities to capitalize on the benefits of AI.

Georgieva pointed out that the more skilled the jobs are, the more they will be affected by artificial intelligence. Compared with emerging markets and developing economies, developed economies face greater risks from artificial intelligence, but also have more opportunities to take advantage of its benefits.

IMF analysis shows that in developed economies, about 60% of jobs could be affected by AI, compared with an estimated 40% and 26% in emerging markets and low-income countries, respectively.

This means that emerging markets and developing economies face less direct disruption from AI, but at the same time, they also face difficulties in profiting from AI technology, as many countries have not yet developed adequate infrastructure or a skilled workforce.

This means that over time, AI technology could exacerbate inequality between countries. “This could exacerbate the digital divide and income disparities across countries,” the IMF wrote in the report.

Georgieva said that artificial intelligence may also affect the distribution of income and wealth within countries. In most cases, artificial intelligence may increase overall inequality, and policymakers must actively respond.

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