Some 41% of Dutch adults in paid employment believe that artificial intelligence could partly perform their job, while 4% believe that AI could completely take over their role, a new study by Statistics Netherlands has found.
Some 43% of employed Dutch adults currently use AI at work, with 56% of this cohort believing that their job could be either partly or fully done by AI, the data found.
This compares to 37% of those that don’t use AI at work.
‘People who have completed higher professional education or university and young adults are more likely than average to believe that AI could do their job,’ Statistics Netherlands noted.
Concern about AI
Of those that believe that AI could do their job, 48% expressed some degree of concern about this, with 8% saying they were ‘very concerned’ and 40% ‘somewhat concerned’ about AI’s potential.
Women were slightly more likely to be concerned about AI’s effects on employment, with 54% expressing concern, compared to 43% of men, however both men and women are equally likely to believe that AI could perform their role.
Loss of certain jobs
Statistics Netherlands’ data also found that most adults, whether they are in paid employment or not, believe that AI will lead to the loss of certain jobs (75%), with 64% believing that AI will cause a decline in knowledge and skills in the workforce, and 48% believing that AI will make some jobs ‘less interesting’.
At the same time, some 57% of respondents said that they expect AI to increase productivity, by enabling tasks to be performed more quickly.
‘However, only a minority believe that AI will help solve labour shortages in certain sectors because fewer workers would be needed (46%), or that it will replace unsafe jobs (41%),’ Statistics Netherlands noted. Read more here.
