Women face greater AI job risk, citing ILO data and AT&T switchboard automation history
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The International Labour Organization finds nearly one in 10 women in high-income countries works in occupations most at risk from AI, according to a CNBC report.
The report cites economists Feigenbaum and Gross, who estimate AT&T's automated telephone switches eliminated about 75,000 operator jobs, most held by women. The report also notes that later generations of women found comparable work in other fields, which the economists' research suggests could also happen with AI.
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AIThe International Labour Organization found nearly one in 10 women in high-income countries works in occupations most at risk from AI. Economists Feigenbaum and Gross found AT&T's automated telephone switches eliminated an estimated 75,000 operator jobs, most held by women, and later generations of women found comparable work in other fields.
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