HUMHUM-005 — Workforce Displacement Anxiety
AI-Driven Job Automation Causing Systemic Economic Displacement
5/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
General-purpose AI systems are automating roles at scale, producing measurable job displacement, economic disruption, and widening social inequality. Boards must treat workforce transition and distributional risk as material governance obligations, not peripheral concerns.
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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