More Jamaicans fear losing their jobs to technology

Don Anderson, Executive Chairman of Market Research Services

By Javaughn Keyes

It appears more Jamaicans are starting to end up being more worried about the possibility of innovation changing their tasks.

The most recent Consumer Confidence Survey revealed there was a combined 7 percent boost in Jamaicans who felt their tasks were “probably most likely to be changed” and “highly most likely to be changed”.

“At the minute, there’s not a terrific degree of issue that innovation will change tasks, not a terrific degree of issue. You can see that 8 percent feel that their task is highly most likely to be changed by innovation, 13 percent most likely. We’re stating one in every 5 think that their task is under risk from innovation, however this is not a big number, however still something that requires to be kept in mind going forward, since there is a sense of seriousness in terms of moving towards a higher gratitude of AI (synthetic intelligence) and ramifications for task security,” stated Executive Chairman of Market Research Services, Don Anderson, who provided the findings.

Forty percent of the used participants were of the view that it was “highly not likely” that their tasks would be changed by innovation.

This represents a 10 percent decrease, recommending lowered self-confidence for some Jamaicans in task security due to technological improvement, consisting of synthetic intellingence.