Almost 8 million U K jobs could be lost to AI, new report suggests

a new report is sounding the alarm over the impact of artificial intelligence on the job market in the United Kingdom it suggests almost 8 million jobs in the UK could be lost to AI but could this become a reality Anna Cunningham is following this story for us this morning in London and she joins us now so uh big question here how will this be and and what exactly is this report telling us morning Marian it does sound quite alarming doesn't it I think the one thing that we can say for sure is that none of

us really know how our workplaces are going to operate in terms of AI even within say five years but this research coming out this morning from the British Think Tank the IP it's the institute for Public Policy research they are warning that entrylevel jobs part-time jobs and also those administrative posts they're the ones that are most at risk they've analyzed 22,000 jobs and what they found is that currently they say 11% are at risk but that could potentially climb to as much as 59% as AI advances now just to give you some context this comes

as the UK is currently in a technical recession there is a desperate lack of affordable housing here so that Prospect of no job no salary will be worrying for many people in terms of who is actually at risk it's women young workers lower wage earners entrylevel positions and admin jobs so we're talking about secretarial work customer services that sort of database Management stock taking type of jobs that would be affected by AI now