AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report

Women, younger workers and lower paid are at most risk from artificial intelligence, says IPPR thinktank

Almost 8 million UK jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence in a jobs apocalypse", according to a report warning that women, younger workers and those on lower wages are at most risk from automation.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said that entry level, part-time and administrative jobs were most exposed to being replaced by AI under a worst-case scenario" for the rollout of new technologies in the next three to five years.