AI Could Replace 4 Million Jobs in South Korea, BOK Study Says
- The more educated a worker is, the more vulnerable to AI
- Goldman Sachs sees 300 million jobs threatened globally
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Artificial intelligence may replace as many as 4 million, or 14% of South Korea’s jobs, over the next two decades, a central bank study said, adding to a chorus of warnings on the looming disruption to labor markets around the world.
Higher-income workers with better academic backgrounds face a greater threat as AI could handle their analytic and cognitive work more easily, said a team led by Oh Sam-il at the Bank of Korea. Chemists, doctors, lawyers, accountants and asset managers are among the most threatened, while people in religious fields, food services, teaching and singing are the least vulnerable, they said Thursday.