Automation threatens more than half of all formal jobs in Brazil

Automation threatens more than half of all formal jobs in Brazil

Automation technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) could make more than half of all formal employment vacancies irrelevant in Brazil, according to new research.

The study by University of Brasília (UnB) employed data from a government database used to inform policies around the Brazilian labor market. The database covers 97 percent of formal employment in Brazil and includes information such as workers’ income, educational level and age.

Some 1122 occupations were split into in five groups according to the level of knowledge required to perform the various tasks. According to the research , which also incorporated evaluations from 69 local researchers […]

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