AI threatens millions of South Korean jobs
AI threatens to make doctors, lawyers, accountants and chemists jobless.
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AI threatens to make doctors, lawyers, accountants and chemists jobless.
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Nearly four million jobs in South Korea are at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence technology over the next two decades, a central bank study released on Thursday said.
Rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technology has triggered global concern over everything from job losses and cyber attacks to humans losing control of the systems they have designed.
The new study by the Bank of Korea said some 3.9 million jobs in South Korea were at risk as AI adoption grows domestically, with doctors, lawyers, accountants, and chemists among the most threatened professions.
"High-income workers with high academic backgrounds face bigger exposure to AI and have a greater risk of being replaced," the study said.
These white-collar jobs were most threatened as AI can easily carry out their analytic and cognitive tasks, it added.
The people least likely to lose their jobs to the advancing technology were those in religious fields, food services and teaching, according to the study.
