How the perception of your arrival varies depending on the country, explained in a graph

Seeing the vertiginous rate at which it is evolving artificial intelligence, it is difficult to look back to realize that, just over two years ago, all that technology did not exist.

The rapid evolution of AI models and the wide range of uses that are being given to them is making them obsolete all forecastsand increases the fear that, sooner rather than later, a AI can replace humans in their jobs.

The impact of AI on employment according to experts

The Report ‘The Future of Jobs Report 2025’which the World Economic Forum prepares every year for its meeting in Davos, has put figures at the impact of AI on the labor market. According to this report, it is expected that by 2030, the process automation that AI will facilitate, will generate the destruction of some 92 million jobs.

The majority of these positions will be administrative, financial management, cashier or telephone service personnel positions, which will be replaced by specialized AI systems or AI agents. On the other hand, the same study indicates that the arrival of AI in the workplace will generate 170 million new jobs in professions that They are already beginning to emerge and many others that do not yet exist.

However, these are the data provided by economic specialists and technology analysts. But what does the population really think about the impact of AI on employment? a study prepared by Ipsos in 33 countries, asked 23,721 citizens if they believe that artificial intelligence will generate new jobs in their country. The portal VisualCapitalist.com has collected all those answers and created a graph explanatory with them.

Will AI create new jobs in your country?

The Chinese were the most optimistic when answering this question, to which a 77% who believed that AI would create new jobscompared to 20% who thought that the arrival of AI would leave a negative balance in employment.

China is all a superpower in AIso the development of your own chips and AI modelswill place them in a prominent position in the strategic career of this technology, which is why a large increase in the demand for professionals with technological profiles is expected in the coming years.

The citizens of Indonesia and Thailand move along the same lines, who believe that the arrival of the will be positive for job creation in their countries.

In the case of these two countries, optimism about the arrival of AI in the workplace is not given by their role in the development of this technology, but rather as countries large data center hosts who will need this technology. Microsoft has already announced a $1.7 billion investment in data infrastructure in Indonesia.

It is striking that the United States, the country What more are you investing? in this technology, it fails to convince its citizens. 49% of those surveyed do not believe that AI will create new jobs in their country, compared to 36% who trust that it will.

In Spain we are a little more optimistic with the forecast for the creation of new jobs. 38% of those surveyed in our country believe that it will be a positive factor for the labor market, compared to 48% who do not believe so.

The results show that European countries are the most pessimistic regarding the arrival of artificial intelligence, highlighting Hungary with 65% of respondents disagreeing with the question about job creation, followed by Germany with 59% and a tie between Italy, Poland and Belgium with 58% of its citizens believing that AI will destroy more jobs of those who will create.

This perception coincides, although to a lesser extent, with the global average, which is around 46% of the population perceiving that the arrival of AI will have a negative impact on the labor market, while 43% believe that arrival of AI will be positive.

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