Funding for research clusters on the effects of AI on the labour market

WASP-HS is a national research programme. The idea behind WASP-HS is to promote the acquisition of new, interdisciplinary knowledge in the humanities and social sciences concerning AI and autonomous systems and their impact on human and social development.

AI, Structural Change, and the Future of Work will investigate the effects of AI and related technologies on the labour market focusing on inequality, demand for labour, the risks of unemployment, job satisfaction, and occupational segregation. The cluster will be led by Oskar Nordström Skans, Professor at the Department of Economics.

“We will conduct empirical studies of how the labour market is changing as a result of the use of AI and other technological innovations. We’ll be analysing how employees are affected when some of their tasks are automated as well as how they are affected when various recruitment and HR functions become AI-based. In addition, we are studying how the advent of AI is changing how we ought to be shaping different forms of retraining and transitioning functions in society,” says Oskar Nordström Skans.

Anders Berndt