With AI and automation, how many Kiwi jobs are on the line?

The job-destroying potential of artificial intelligence and automation has created much angst around the fast-evolving technology. How will we be affected and what industries and regions are likely to be hit hardest? Much needed research into the issue is starting to emerge, but the widely varying estimates on the job-destroying potential of AI and automation shows just how difficult it is to predict the impact of this potentially highly disruptive technology across the economy and society. A critical question to answer is whether artificial intelligence will be as significantly disruptive to employment as previous transformative technologies, such as electricity and the internet were. Another key question to unpick is what timeframe the transformation will occur over.