There are mounting fears over what the AI revolution will mean for Aussies, with experts revealing soaring cases of workers losing their jobs.
Australian employment lawyers are dealing with cases involving white collar workers being replaced by artificial intelligence weekly, as new research shows one in three people now wish they chose different careers.
It raises questions over how prepared Australia really is for what Independent Senator David Pocock has called a “freight train” coming to disrupt workplaces across the country.
Employment law specialist Roxanne Hart told news.com.au that it was now “fairly common” for her to take on cases involving office workers being made redundant due to AI.
“The biggest impact that I’ve seen is through white collar redundancies,” she said.
“People who are in the copywriting, coding, data analytics (and the) administration realm, because a lot of those duties are now being replicated by AI to some extent.
“It’s fairly common now. Whereas two years ago it certainly wasn’t even a thing that we were thinking about.
“We’d probably do redundancies every week in this space.”
Meanwhile, the Real Jobs of the Future report, compiled by Real Insurance, revealed that while half of Australians have not yet felt AI’s impact, 32 per cent would have chosen a different career if they had known how widespread it would become.
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