This report by PwC for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy provides estimates of the potential impact on UK employment and skills demand of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies such as robotics, drones and autonomous vehicles. The research reveals that an estimated 7% of existing UK jobs could face a high (over 70%) probability of automation over the next five years. However, AI will also create many jobs through the boost it gives to productivity and economic growth. The research suggests that job creation will mostly be in providing relatively hard-to-automate services (e.g. health and personal care) that are in greater demand due to the additional real incomes and spending arising from higher productivity generated by AI.
