Are employers facing a potential AI-driven exodus of white-collar workers?

At a recent tech conference in Paris, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos became the latest in an unsurprisingly long line of tech companies to advocate for the positive benefits of AI on the workforce.

Continuing a debate that began in 2013 when Oxford Professors Frey and Osborne estimated the technology would eradicate around 47% of US jobs over the following 20 years, Bezos argued vehemently to the contrary. In fact, he said that rather than replacing swathes of humans, AI would actually unlock new opportunities and increase demand for human labour.

But a report from digital transformation consultancy Adaptavist would appear a tad less optimistic, in the short-term at least. Its research claimed that businesses around the world are facing a potential white collar job exodus.

As many as a third of knowledge workers are actively planning to change industries due to fears of being displaced by AI,...

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