Current data reveals the scale at which this is already in motion:
- A 2025 poll in the UK found that 26% of workers fear AI will make their roles completely obsolete within their lifetime
- Goldman Sachs estimates that AI could severely impact, or totally replace, 300 million jobs globally by 2030
- 10% of UK university graduates in 2025 have already had to change career path due to AI threats in their original fields of choice
According to McKinsey’s 2025 analysis, 8 million workers in the UK will be affected by artificial intelligence by 2030, amounting more than a quarter of the current national workforce. Of those, 3.5 million could experience complete job displacement, with the rest seeing “significant task disruption”.
Notably, McKinsey’s report projects that the most affected groups will be women, young people, and lower-income workers, due to their saturation in fields such as retail, clerical support, and hospitality. However, health care jobs and roles in education and STEM-related fields are actually expected to grow as a result, meaning the UK’s already polarised labour market could widen further.
Once a theoretical risk, we’re now seeing real-time restructuring.
Writers, junior developers, support agents, and administrative
assistants are already being replaced partially or completely by
automation. And this is just the beginning. ...<<<Read More>>>...
