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AI changes which tasks people do, how work is organised, which skills are valued and how information spreads. Effects differ by occupation, country, gender and age, and depend on how firms and governments choose to deploy it. This page sets out how AI affects work and society, how exposure and impacts are measured, and what evidence serves the labour ministries, employers, unions and educators involved.

01تۆمارکردن

Labour and social effects on the record.

02The question

Labour and social effects: how the risk develops.

Work, education, public trust and inclusion. The dossier below sets out how the risk develops, what is measured, where the data come from, how it is modelled and who decides.

میکانیزم

Tasks change before jobs do

AI automates or assists specific tasks within occupations. Jobs are reorganised around remaining tasks before they disappear or new ones form.

میکانیزم

Exposure is uneven

Clerical and some professional tasks are highly exposed to generative AI, while manual and interpersonal work is less exposed. Women are over-represented in some highly exposed clerical jobs.

میکانیزم

Skills and training lag

Workers need new skills to use AI well, and those displaced need retraining. Training سیستەمە often respond more slowly than technology adoption.

میکانیزم

Information ecosystems shift

Generated content, recommendation systems and synthetic media change how people find and judge information, with effects on trust and public debate.

03ڕێگا و بەڵگە

How labour and social effects is modelled, measured and tested.

مۆدێلەکە، گریمانەکانی، داتاکانی و نادڵنیاییەکەی، بەو شێوەیەی زانا یان ئەندازیارێک دەیپشکنێت. پێکهاتەکان ڕێگا بڵاوکراوەکان دەگرنەبەر. بەهاکانی کێشراو نموونەییە، نەک دۆزینەوە.

مۆدێلی سیستەم

The couplings between the systems in labour and social effects: signs of influence, a reinforcing and a balancing loop, and cross-links where stress jumps.

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Causal loop diagram from the page’s systems; signs show the direction of influence. Illustrative structure for a system dynamics or network model, not estimated couplings.
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04لە ناو بوارەکان

AI’s effects on work vary across domains.

05نیشاندەرەکان

What is measured, and how well.

Each indicator carries its unit, its cadence, the kind of source behind it and the evidence label a value would carry. No values are shown: a programme supplies them under its own authority.

IndicatorUnitCadenceSource typeناونیشان
Employment in occupations highly exposed to AIpercent of employmentper assessmentExposure studies using occupational dataمەزەندەکراو
Firms using AIpercent of firmsannualBusiness surveysREPORTED
Workers using AI tools at workpercent of workersper surveyLabour force and worker surveysREPORTED
AI-related job postingsshare of postingsmonthlyOnline job posting dataچاودێریکراو
Participation in AI skills trainingpercent of workforceannualTraining surveysREPORTED
Wage changes in exposed occupationspercent changeannualWage statisticsئامارە بڵاوکراوەکان
06سەرچاوەکان

Where the evidence comes from.

Named public datasets and institutional records, each with its licence class. Sources by agreement are used only under their terms and never republished.

سەرچاوەWhat it givesLicence class
ILO studies on generative AI exposure of occupationsOccupational exposure estimates by country and genderPublic, ILO terms
OECD Employment Outlook and AI in work studiesEvidence on AI adoption and labour effectsPublic, OECD terms
Eurostat ICT usage in enterprises surveyShare of enterprises using AIOpen, Eurostat reuse policy
Online job posting data such as Lightcast summariesDemand for AI skillsCommercial; public summaries (to check)
Stanford AI IndexCompiled indicators on AI adoption, investment and labourPublic, licence to check
07بڕیارەکان

Who decides, and what the evidence serves.

زیرەکی دەستکرد و سیستەم prepares evidence. The decisions below are taken by the authorities named, under their own rules, and never by the platform.

کێ بڕیار دەداتThe questionEvidence this page serves
Labour ministriesWhich workers and sectors need transition supportExposure analyses; adoption tracking
Employers and unionsHow to introduce AI at work and share its gainsAdoption and wage evidence
پەروەردە and training bodiesWhich skills to teach and to whomSkills demand evidence

Outputs this topic produces

  • Occupational exposure analyses by sector, gender and region
  • Adoption tracking from business and worker surveys
  • Evaluation designs for AI training programmes
  • Evidence notes for social dialogue on AI at work
08Core questions

What researchers ask about social effects.

  • Which tasks can current AI perform well, and how does that map onto occupations?
  • Does AI substitute for workers, complement them or change what their jobs consist of?
  • How does AI change learning and assessment in education?
  • How do errors, opacity and misuse affect trust, and who is excluded?
09Mechanisms

Tasks, not jobs.

Jobs are bundles of tasks. AI tends to automate or assist specific tasks, such as drafting, summarising, coding or classifying images, which changes the content of jobs rather than simply removing them. Whether that raises productivity and wages or displaces workers depends on how organisations redesign work and how gains are shared.

In education, AI can personalise support but also undermine assessment and the learning that comes from effort. Trust depends on experience: visible errors, unexplained decisions and synthetic content erode it, while accountable use can build it. People with limited digital access, skills or language support risk exclusion.

10Methods and data

Evidence on social effects.

  1. 01

    Task exposure analysis

    Mapping AI capabilities onto occupational task data. Exposure is not the same as displacement.

  2. 02

    Field and natural experiments

    Studying workplaces and classrooms that adopt AI, using زانستی کۆمەڵایەتی و هەڵسوکەوتی. Early studies may not generalise.

  3. 03

    Surveys of trust and use

    Measuring how people use and perceive AI. Attitudes change quickly and vary by context.

  4. 04

    Capability evaluation

    Linking what سیستەمە can actually do, from ئەندازیاری هەڵسەنگاندن و دڵنیایی لە زیرەکی دەستکرد, to claims about social effects.

12Where this page’s references

Where this page’s references lead.

ئەو لەش و بەڵگەنامانەی ئەم لاپەڕەیەیان لەگەڵ دەخوێنرێتەوە. دۆخ و وەشانەکان دەگۆڕێن؛ هەر بەستەرێک دەچێتە لای لەشی دەرکەر.

13پرسیارەکان

پرسیار و وەڵام.

Will AI take jobs?
Evidence so far suggests AI changes tasks within jobs more often than it eliminates whole jobs, but effects differ by occupation and depend on how it is deployed. Long-term effects are uncertain.
What is occupational exposure to AI?
A measure of how many of an occupation’s tasks AI could perform or assist, based on task descriptions, which indicates potential, not realised, change.
Who is most exposed to generative AI?
Studies by the ILO and others find clerical and some professional occupations most exposed, with women over-represented in highly exposed clerical work.
Will AI cause mass unemployment?
The evidence does not support confident predictions either way. Effects depend on adoption, work redesign, policy and how gains are shared, and they differ by occupation and place.
Which workers are most exposed?
Exposure analyses suggest many office and knowledge tasks are exposed to current AI, unlike earlier automation that mainly affected routine manual work. Exposure does not mean those jobs disappear.
How does this topic relate to Future of Work and Skills?
This topic connects AI capabilities to social effects; Future of Work and Skills studies labour markets, skills and institutions in depth. The two share evidence.
Does the platform advise employers?
No. It publishes research that employers, unions and public bodies can use.
Reportsبەشداربە

لەم لاپەڕەیەوە بەڵگە پێشکەش بکە.

Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.

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