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AI job disruption forecast

How will artificial intelligence (AI) change the way we work?

The Future of Innovation Lab x Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities has begun co-forecasting with AI to advance its job forecasting methods. This offers advantages over traditional job forecasting approaches, which often require extensive research cycles that can take months or even years to complete.

We convert job descriptions into a standardised set of Intermediate Work Activities (IWA) based on O*NET classifications, utilising our proprietary universal task translator query system to ensure consistency and accuracy. Once the tasks are properly categorised, we leverage advanced AI models and platforms to conduct detailed forecasts using our proprietary methodology.

In this blog series, we share insights from our job forecasts. While the general patterns are similar (as expected) across different professions, the extent to which the human worker experiences these impacts varies. What happens to the human worker, how we help them thrive, and how we empower them when they are badly hit, is where we have chosen to focus. We have developed approaches to study the analytical and human-social tasks specific to each profession, to remain human-centric and help everyone cut through the noise on AI’s impact – just as we did with Singapore’s first human-centric, industry-agnostic job redesign guide in the last wave of AI – see  “A Guide to Job Redesign in the Age of AI”.

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