The solid line in the charts represents the net effect of AI, with the bars showing the displacement... [ ] and income effects. It's impossible to say precisely how artificial intelligence will disrupt the job market, so researchers at PwC have taken a bird's-eye view and pointed to the results of sweeping economic changes. Their prediction, in a new report out Tuesday, is that it will all balance out in the end. More automation in trucks, factories and elsewhere could cost around 7 million existing jobs in the U.K. by 2037. But the rise in robots and machine-learning software will make the country more productive over the next two decades, growing at a 2% annual clip, to put nearly the same number of jobs back in the system: 7.2 million, PwC estimates.

The solid line in the charts represents the net effect of AI, with the bars showing the displacement and income effects.Graphic via PricewaterhouseCoopers It's impossible to say precisely how artificial intelligence will disrupt the job market, so researchers at PwC have taken a bird's-eye view and pointed to the results of sweeping economic changes. Their prediction, in a new report out Tuesday, is that it will all balance out in the end. More automation in trucks, factories and elsewhere could cost around 7 million existing jobs in the U.K. by 2037. But the rise in robots and machine-learning software will make the country more productive over the next two decades, growing at a 2% annual clip, to put nearly the same number of jobs back in the system: 7.2 million, PwC estimates. To be clear, those new jobs won't involve building robots or coding AI-powered software, which will make up only around 5% of employment, says John Hawksworth, PwC's chief economist.