HUMHUM-005 — Workforce Displacement Anxiety
AI Automation Drives Structural Unemployment and Suppresses Wages Across Labour Market
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Advances in reinforcement learning and language models risk automating both manual and knowledge work at scale, producing widespread unemployment and downward wage pressure. Boards must treat labour displacement as a systemic risk requiring workforce strategy and regulatory engagement, not merely an operational efficiency opportunity.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values (Clarke2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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