The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is underway. Businesses and workers will be shaken up because of the implementation of AI, which will drastically change the way we produce and work. All sectors will be affected and some jobs will be transformed more quickly than others. For better or for worse? The newspaper interviewed players from the music, cinema, humor, advertising, publishing, television and several other sectors
The question is on everyone’s lips: which jobs are most at risk of disappearing, replaced gradually or overnight by tools designed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Yours, perhaps?
While the question is clear, the answer is much less so. Experts agree that almost all sectors of activity will be affected by advances in AI. Of course, some sectors will be more affected than others.
The same goes for jobs. While most current jobs can expect AI to improve their productivity, for others, AI will sign their death warrant.
See below the sectors and jobs most at risk.
White collars before blue collars
Unlike previous industrial revolutions, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses will mainly affect sectors and professions that are already highly digitalized and have low added value.
This is what emerges from the short list of professions and jobs most likely to be transformed or replaced before long by the widespread introduction of AI in the labor market.
“This is a revolution that will hit white-collar workers well before blue-collar workers,” summarizes the technology expert and host of the digital news podcast My notebook Bruno Guglielminetti.
“In the past, we have seen factory workers, doing repetitive and physical work, being replaced by machines. Today,” he continues, “it is skilled workers, working in a world that is often already highly digitalized, who will be most at risk.”
Sectors and professions at risk
Certain sectors of activity, such as financial services, legal services, health and professions related to management or sales, will be the first to be impacted.
A study by Goldman Sachs, for example, estimates that 46% of the tasks of office or administrative support workers, and 44% of those performed in law and notary offices, can be carried out with new tools developed by AI.
In each sector, jobs with routine or particularly repetitive tasks, such as data entry managers, market analysts, graphic designers, sales representatives and accountants, are among the most exposed.
In the healthcare sector, radiology is often cited as an example of a field that could benefit remarkably from AI. Thanks to complex imaging, AI can diagnose tumors more quickly and efficiently than any experienced radiologist could.