HUMHUM-005 — Workforce Displacement Anxiety
AI-Driven Human Role Substitution Creates Systemic Societal Risk
5/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
General-purpose AI systems are progressively displacing human roles at a scale that constitutes a systemic rather than sector-specific risk. Boards must treat workforce substitution as a structural governance concern, not merely an operational efficiency question.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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