Could AI unplug

Global Jobs?

Hello and you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live from the BBC World Service

I'm Leanna Byrne and a very good Monday morning to you.

A report from the International Monetary Fund

says that in the future about four and ten jobs around the world could be

affected by artificial intelligence. It says advanced economies could be hit the

hardest.

The BBC's tech reporter Chris Valence can tell us more.

Hi Chris.

Hi there.

So when we say it's going to affect 40% of jobs, what does the IMF mean there? It's an open question whether that means jobs are going to be automated away or if in some cases

maybe AI will be a useful partner in work but they certainly say it's going to cause

disruption it could certainly cause worsening inequality according to the

report and it won't have an even effect between different types of

economy and different types of countries. So in advanced economies 60% of jobs

could be affected in low-income countries that number falls down to 26%.

Going back to that inequality point is that how that difference between how AI is going to work

in different economies?

Well, I think they said that older workers might be particularly disadvantaged

because they are less likely to be able to adapt, the argument I mean you know as an older person

perhaps I might sort of say well you know old dogs can learn new tricks but you're not that

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