This podcast episode from the ILO explores a new study on how generative AI affects the quality of employment, not just the number of jobs. The research indicates that AI’s role in augmenting tasks is at least as important as automating them. It also warns that without appropriate policies, AI could widen existing gender and
Technological innovation has been shaping the world of work since before the invention of the wheel. But the issue has taken on a new urgency with the rise of AI or Artificial Intelligence. In particular with the launch of ChatGPT, a form of generative AI that, through machine learning, is able to generate a wide
Have you ever talked to a computer during an interview? Have you ever been made aware of a machine screening your application and CV? Or did you get the impression that you had been selected by an algorithm for a job you interviewed for? And how did this make you feel? In this edition of
Digital technology and artificial intelligence present important challenges to equality in the workplace and in society. As workplaces transition towards a digital future, we are already seeing that existing gender equality gaps are being reproduced in the digital realm. However, does this have to be the case? In the first of our Future of Work
In this episode of the ILO Voices podcast, the discussion centres on how artificial intelligence is transforming jobs and business practices. It addresses whether AI can help tackle inequality, low productivity, and weak fundamental rights, and asks what workers and companies can do to prepare. Artificial intelligence isn’t a tool for the future—it’s already here,
This podcast episode features Pawel Gmyrek, Senior researcher at the ILO, and Hernan Winkler, Senior economist at the World Bank, who discuss their recent research paper on how generative AI may affect employment in Latin America. The conversation explores whether these technologies might reduce or deepen the region’s digital divide and existing inequalities. Generative artificial
