Job quality or job quantity – which will AI affect most?

There is much discussion of the effects Generative AI will have on job creation and destruction, but just as important is the effect it will have on the quality of jobs – decent work – and which countries and sectors will feel the effects most.

A new ILO research paper suggests that its impact on the augmentation of jobs is at least as important as the automation of tasks. However it also suggests that, without the right policies, AI could deepen existing inequalities between genders and the richest and poorest.