Warning from the IMF: AI ‘tsunami’ will change most jobs, it will be hardest for young people

She also referred to the IMF’s research: AI could affect about 60 percent of jobs in developed economies, while globally that share is about 40 percent. The idea is not that all these jobs disappear, but that part of the jobs are “helped” so that people work faster and more productively, some of them are changed, and some of the tasks are automated.

Georgieva also warned about the pressure on the middle class. He warns that if your job is not among those that AI will ‘help’, due to the fact that part of the tasks will go to automation, wages may stagnate or fall. In the text, Fortune also cites the example that in the USA last year, AI and automation were mentioned as a factor in tens of thousands of layoffs, which is taken in the discussion as a sign that more changes are coming. event.

The second theme of the story is regulation. Georgieva asks where the ‘guardrails’ are and warns that technology is spreading faster than safety and inclusion rules can be set. Recently, it has been talked about more and more, with the message that AI may lose ‘social support’ if the benefits are concentrated in a small number of companies and countries.