The OECD programme on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills (AI-WIPS) - with the support of Germany “ analyses the impact of AI on the labour market, skills and social policy.
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OECD programme on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills
Initiative overview
The OECD is working with governments around the world to try to measure and analyse the impact of AI on training needs and labour markets. This site aims to help governments to shape AI-related policies that are responsible and human-centred, and that improve individual and societal well-being.Last year's AI WIPS Conference “ the OECD International Conference on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity, and Skills “ took place the 12 and 13 December 2024.The 2023 and 2024 International Conference on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity, and Skills brought together leading voices from the policy, academic, business, technical and civil society communities to discuss how AI affects employment, skills, productivity, and innovation and how policymaking can respond. Alongside the implications of ChatGPT-like tools, participants discussed new OECD evidence on the impact of AI in the workplace and education, whether AI is the solution to skills shortages, risk-based approaches for AI governance and much more.AI is widely expected to complement humans in some tasks, replace them in others, generate new types of work and transform the way people organise and carry out today's work. Governments around the world are faced with managing the AI transition, and ensuring that AI is developed and deployed across economies and societies in a way that is responsible and human-centred, and that improves individual and societal well-being.The OECD AI Principles call policy makers' attention to a critical policy area: building human capacity and preparing for a fair labour market transformation. The OECD is now working to inform policy makers in implementing the AI Principles; through the OECD AI Policy Observatory, OECD.AI.Germany's support enables OECD.AI to house a dedicated Programme on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills (AI-WIPS). This collaboration aims at producing in depth analyses, measurement, opportunities for international dialogue and concrete policy assessments on how AI impacts labour markets and societies. Through collaboration with international policy, research and business communities, as well as labour representatives and civil society, the OECD will identify necessary employment, skills and social policy reforms. The AI-WIPS benefits from synergies with the wider programme of work and policy communities that make up the OECD AI Policy Observatory.With the German AI Observatory launched by the Policy Lab Digital, Work and Society (Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs), Germany is promoting public understanding, trust and acceptance of AI and developing people-centred AI policies for a changing world of work.
