A joint study from the UN's International Labour Organization and Poland's National Research Institute, released May 2025 and based on analysis of nearly 30,000 job descriptions, estimates that one in four jobs worldwide is exposed to generative AI, but concludes that task transformation—not widespread job loss—is the more likely outcome. The study finds that few jobs consist entirely of automatable tasks with current AI technology. Gender disparities are pronounced: in high-income countries, 9.6% of women's jobs face highest-risk exposure versus 3.2% for men, driven by overrepresentation in clerical and administrative roles. For financial institutions, this framing—focused on job transformation and wage/quality risk rather than mass displacement—suggests pressure will center on labor retraining, wage compression in routine-task roles, and policy mandates for workforce transition support, rather than on near-term employment collapse.
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