FINALLY! I\’ve been quoting the World Economic Forum\’s figures for years that said that by (insert year here…it kept changing) 85 millions jobs could be displaced by AI but 97 million more will be created.
I\’ve been waiting for years for these figures to be updated and they finally have.
According to the WEF 2025 Future of Jobs Report…by 2030 \”170 million jobs are projected to be created and 92 million jobs to be displaced, constituting a structural labour market churn of 22% of the 1.2 billion formal jobs in the dataset being studied. This amounts to a net employment increase of 7%, or 78 million jobs.\”
If you delve into the report (don\’t worry; I\’m going to be doing this so you don\’t have to), you\’ll see that, while as you\’d expect, many of the first jobs created will be technical, plenty of non-technical jobs are on the rise simply because we will have more time to do things differently.
But here is the striking thing to me. Look at the light blue bit. It\’s HUGE! This part of the graph depicts the millions and millions and millions of jobs that won\’t change. Sure they will still be impacted by AI as people augment their human skills to do their jobs better – but they won\’t be significantly disrupted by AI.
But of course, there are no headlines about this. The media concentrates on the purple—how many jobs we will be losing and/or significantly changing.
If you are in one of those jobs, or managing a team who are, it\’s time to start thinking about upskilling and reskilling. I\’ll post the actual jobs affected tomorrow.
Until then take heart – AI will be creating jobs!
