 Artificial Intelligence and the UK Labour Market: Questions, methods and a call for a systematic approach to information gatheringWorking Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol Abstract: Whilst much work has recently been produced on the impact robots will have on labour markets of rich countries there is no substantial body of work as yet into what impact artificial intelligence will have on labour markets. Recently Raj and Seamans (2018) have called for an urgent need to gather firm-level information on what AI is being used and how the use of AI is changing over time. In Felton, Raj and Seamans (2018) the authors use a measure of AI in US firms and map the areas in firms in which AI is used against a broad range of job requirements in occupations in order to ascertain the probability that occupations will be made redundant or which job requirements will become redundant. In the UK we currently have nothing comparable to the level of detail found in these data sources. This paper calls for a concerted and rigorous approach to gathering this information at individual and firm-level in order to give some idea of which jobs and job requirements are under threat from AI and crucially whether the quality of jobs is or will decline. Date: 2019-01-03 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uwe:wpaper:20191903 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol Contact information at EDIRC. |
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