AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report

AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report

Women, younger workers and lower paid are at most risk from artificial intelligence, says IPPR thinktank

Almost 8 million UK jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence in a “jobs apocalypse”, according to a report warning that women, younger workers and those on lower wages are at most risk from automation.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said that entry level, part-time and administrative jobs were most exposed to being replaced by AI under a “worst-case scenario” for the rollout of new technologies in the next three to five years.

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