What significance will AI have for different professional groups, and will certain jobs disappear completely? These are some of the questions that have become relevant as AI developments become increasingly apparent.
The answer, according to the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (Saco), is that a majority of employees in Sweden work in professions with relatively high AI exposure - especially highly educated people, women and employees in knowledge-intensive industries.
The report uses an exposure index for AI. A high index does not mean that tasks will completely disappear due to AI, but rather that certain tasks performed by AI will instead need to be supervised or controlled by humans.
The report notes that women work in professions with relatively high AI exposure to a significantly greater extent than men, around 65 percent compared with 53 percent for men. However, what speaks in women's favor is that AI in these cases is expected to function more as a complement to work compared with male-dominated professions.
Broken down into different industries, for example, finance and insurance, together with the information and communications sector, are the sectors with the greatest AI exposure.
The lowest exposure is found in agriculture, forestry and hotel and restaurant operations, among other areas.
At the same time, Saco notes in the report that AI can help create new tasks that, in the long term, can give rise to completely new occupations and professions.
