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

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 being the most at risk.

That doesn’t mean other jobs won’t be affected.…

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