UN Report: AI Threatens Women's Work Bigger Than Men

JAKARTA Work traditionally carried out by women is more vulnerable to the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) than work usually done by men, especially in high-income countries. This was revealed in the findings of a recent report from the United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) on Tuesday, May 20.

The report reveals that 9.6% of the work normally done by women is expected to be transformed due to AI, compared to only 3.5% of the work done by men. This is mainly due to the increasing role of AI in handling administrative tasks and changing the work of klerils such as the secretary.

Even so, the report stressed that human involvement will still be needed in many tasks, and work tends to undergo major changes compared to being completely replaced by technology.

Job fields such as media, software (software), and finance are also the most affected because of the ability of a generating AI that continues to develop in studying various complex tasks.

"We emphasize that exposure to this technology does not necessarily mean the automation of all professions, but the great potential of most of the tasks in the work that AI can do," the report reads.

ILO also calls on governments, employers' organizations, and trade unions to begin considering how AI can be used to increase productivity and job quality, instead of focusing solely on potential threats.