{"id":44820,"date":"2021-06-23T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T08:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44820"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:49:48","slug":"one-in-five-russians-fears-losing-their-job-to-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/one-in-five-russians-fears-losing-their-job-to-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"One in five Russians fears losing their job to automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in five Russians fears losing their job to automation. This comes from a Salary.ru service survey, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20210623\/robot-1738172975.html\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\">\u00ab\u0420\u0418\u0410 \u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In an online interview, 1,992 respondents from across Russia participated. The researchers found that those most afraid of losing their jobs are salespeople, cashiers, storekeepers, drivers, couriers, waiters and cleaners.<\/p>\n<p>Medics, educators, cooks and IT specialists were more confident about the demand for their professions, the study says.<\/p>\n<p>Women are more worried than men about becoming redundant \u2014 64% and 36%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say routine professions will disappear in the future. For example, cashiers in supermarkets are already being replaced by self-service zones, and live customer-support operators by chatbots.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents believe the number of familiar occupations will shrink by 20%, but in the coming decades new jobs will emerge in sectors such as digital technologies, genetics and biology, and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Not all Russians support the widespread use of technologies. 17% are concerned about total digitalisation, and 2% of respondents fear a machine uprising and the enslavement of humanity by machines.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the study showed that more than half of Russians would like<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/over-half-of-russians-back-replacing-deputies-with-artificial-intelligence\"> to replace deputies with artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the head of Sberbank, Herman Gref, urged<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/gref-says-artificial-intelligence-will-force-people-to-change-careers\"> to prepare for losing work due to robotisation<\/a> and to master new professions.<\/p>\n<p>Nobel laureate in economics Daniel Kahneman believes that<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opinion-ai-will-surpass-humans-but-not-soon\"> machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence<\/a>, but for now it remains distant.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on Telegram:<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\"> ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22% of working residents of Russia fear they could be replaced by robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,167,27],"class_list":["post-44820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-research","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44822,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44820\/revisions\/44822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}