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 economic disparities.

There is much discussion of the effects Generative AI will have on job creation and destruction, but just as important is the effect it will have on the quality of jobs – decent work – and which countries and sectors will feel the effects most.

A new ILO research paper suggests that its impact on the augmentation of jobs is at least as important as the automation of tasks.

However, it also suggests that, without the right policies, AI could deepen existing inequalities between genders and the richest and poorest.

Source: ILO Voices podcast