How artificial intelligence will impact the work environment

The influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on work processes is growing rapidly, while there is a shortage of skilled labour in Switzerland and the EU. How will this combination affect the labour market and inflation in the long term? No, this text was not written by an AI. But it could soon be. Artificial intelligence is making rapid progress. + Why Switzerland needs more workers from abroad Not only could journalistic texts be written by computers in the future, but many other tasks will soon no longer require humans: for example, photo editing, stocktaking and bookkeeping. In the SWI swissinfo.ch podcast Geldcast, we spoke to economist Jan-Egbert Sturm from the Economic Research Centre at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich and asked, among other things: will there soon be fewer jobs? Baby boomers retiring In the short term, the answer is no – at least for Switzerland. Because something else is happening on the domestic labour market at the same time.