An investigation on job hunting students: the type of business that would not be needed any more due to AI - "banks, department stores..."

Recently the NHK News on-line reported the following:

ＡＩで要らなくなる業種 “銀行 百貨店…” 就活学生の調査

2018年9月15日 12時54分

就職活動を進める大学生の半数近くが、ＡＩ＝人工知能の発達で将来、人手が要らなくなる可能性のある職業を意識しているという調査結果がまとまりました。

就職情報サービス大手、リクルートキャリアは先月、来年卒業予定の大学生に就職活動についての調査をインターネット上で行い、1300人余りから回答を得ました。

この中で、ＡＩの発達に伴って将来、人手が要らなくなる可能性のある職業を意識したことがあるか尋ねたところ、全体の46.9％が「ある」と答えました。このうち、文系では48.6％が、理系では43.1％が「ある」と答え、文系の学生のほうがＡＩを意識しているという結果になりました。

具体的な業種では、銀行や保険会社などの金融業界のほか、百貨店やスーパーなどの小売業界を挙げる学生が目立ちました。

また、仕事の内容では、事務部門を挙げた学生が最も多く、次いでトレーダーやアナリスト、生産管理や品質管理などとなっています。

調査した会社は「最近は安定した職に就きたいと考える学生が増える傾向にあり、こうした学生はＡＩが及ぼす人間の仕事への脅威に敏感になっているようだ」としています。

Translation

A survey result gathered had indicated that nearly half of the college students who were doing job hunting were conscious of the fact that certain occupations had a possibility being made obsolete in the future due to the development of AI= artificial intelligence.

Recruit Carrier, a major company on job information service last month conducted a survey on the internet on job hunting among the college students who planned to graduate next year, it received responses from about 1300 people.

Among them, when asked whether there was conscious of the fact that some occupations had a possibility that manpower for it would not be needed any more in future due to AI development, 46.9% of the total had answered "some". Among these those who answered "some", 48.6% were those from a faculty of liberal arts while 43.1% from a science faculty; the result was that students from a faculty of liberal arts were conscious about the AI.

For the business categories in detail, in addition to banking and insurance company in financial industry in which students had mentioned, department stores and supermarkets in the retail industry stood out as the example mentioned.

Next, by the contents of work, most students mentioned the administrative department; the next were traders, analysts, production controls, and quality controls and so on.

The investigating company assumed that " recently, students who would like to get a stable job tends to increase, and may be such students become sensitive to the threat exerted by AI on human’s occupation."

          Obviously, AI is changing the occupational pattern of some societies.