Yes, AI may take some jobs – but it could also mean more men doing care work

It's now generally accepted that as artificial intelligence (AI) advances into fields of work that were formerly considered skilled labour, a huge number of manual and white collar jobs are likely to disappear. These are the kinds of jobs that require learning and applying patterns, unemotional calculation and mechanistic problem solving. Think: medical diagnosis, legal contracts and engineering. Read more: AI doctors and engineers are coming – but they won't be stealing high-skill jobs Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins recently suggested AI will free us up to focus on the caring work uniquely suited to humans. Currently much care work is low paid, unpaid or invisible – and mostly done by women.