Whose job will AI replace? Here's why a clerk in Ethiopia has more to fear than one in California

  • Written by: Niusha Shafiabady, Associate Professor in Computational Intelligence, Charles Darwin University

Artificial intelligence is changing the world – and one of the main areas it will affect in the short-to-medium term is the workforce.

AI algorithms imitate real-world systems. The more repetitive a system is, the easier it is for AI to replace it. That’s why jobs in customer service, retail and clerical roles are regularly named as...

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