Nearly 4 million employees in South Korea could be displaced by artificial intelligence technology in the next 20 years.
The country’s central bank, the Bank of South Korea (BOK), made this known in a report released on Thursday, November 16, 2023.
Rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology has triggered global concern over everything from job losses and cyber attacks to humans losing control of the systems they have designed.
The new study by the Bank of Korea said some 3.9 million jobs in South Korea were at risk as AI adoption grows domestically, with doctors, lawyers, accountants, and chemists among the most threatened professions.
“High-income workers with high academic backgrounds face bigger exposure to AI and have a greater risk of being replaced,” the study disclosed.
These white-collar jobs were most threatened as AI can easily carry out their analytic and cognitive tasks, it added.
The people least likely to lose their jobs to advancing technology were those in religious fields, food services and teaching, according to the study.
The Bank of Korea report noted that while AI technology is a threat to existing jobs, it also creates new employment opportunities, including for engineers who develop and maintain AI systems as well as at AI-related start-ups.
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