Future Shocked? AI, Skill Demand and Employment in the UK Labor Market (Emma Duchini, Mirko Draca, Arthur Turrell, Giulia Vattuone)

Abstract: Artifical Intelligence (AI) technologies are developing fast. Exploiting a granular data set on online job listing data, this paper explores the diffusion of AI in the UK labor market. First, it traces the demand for AI skills over time, across occupations and counties. Second, it uses novel measures of AI-occupational exposure to study potential dynamics of substitution and complementarity between AI-performed tasks and those performed by humans. Third, it aims to assess the impact of AI on the structure of jobs, by implementing a text-based analysis of job ads.

Organiser: Roland Rathelot