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Employment: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Andrew RosindellReform UKDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 22 November 2024UIN 14028

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to help protect jobs that could otherwise be replaced by increased use of artificial intelligence.

Answered by Justin Madders

  • New technologies, including AI, have the potential to boost wages, drive up productivity and empower workers.

  • The government’s approach to new technologies is to protect good jobs, enable good future jobs and ensure rights and protections keep pace with technological change; safeguarding against discrimination; and putting the worker voice at the heart of Britain’s digital transition.

  • AI is expected to augment roles, rather than replace them. A report by the International Labour Organisation corroborates this, indicating that some roles are more exposed to AI, but that AI is not able to fully replace human employees.

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