AI poses bigger threat in jobs with more women, study finds
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Employees in women-dominated occupations are deeply vulnerable to the potentially transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the American workforce, according to researchers. Edited by Alain Sherter In:
Employees in women-dominated occupations are deeply vulnerable to the potentially transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the American workforce, according to researchers.
That's one of the main takeaways of a recent report from the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank, and the Centre for the Governance of AI, a policy research firm.
Drawing on a mix of public and private data, the report looks at which fields have the highest risk of being disrupted by AI and how workers in those sectors are likely to fare.
Of the employees most at risk of losing their jobs due to AI, more than 6 million workers would likely struggle to cope because they're older, have limited savings and other factors, the researchers said. Most of those workers are in clerical and administrative jobs — roles that historically have been dominated by women.
AI supplanting human workers in these jobs would continue a decades-long pattern of advancements in information technology handling work formerly done by people, Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution, told CBS News.
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