PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2021)
Reporting Period: 2021
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Employment
- Skills Demand
Social Achievements
- Provided estimates of the potential impact on UK employment and skills demand of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Potential displacement of human workers as AI technologies are rolled out.
- Potential distributional effects of AI on UK employment.
Mitigation Strategies
- Developed a holistic approach to estimating the potential net employment effect of AI, considering both job displacement and job creation.
- Analyzed potential distributional effects of AI on UK employment by occupation, industry sector, region, education level, age group, and gender.