The Automation Question: Jobs, Productivity and the Future of Work The jobs safest from automation are the ones Pakistan's graduates are not being trained for. The jobs they are being trained for are the ones the machines are learning first

Abstract

The World Bank says only 4.5 percent of jobs in developing countries face immediate generative-AI automation risk, versus 14.2 percent in rich ones. That sounds like good news until you notice which Pakistani jobs sit inside the 4.5 percent: the entry-level, educated, formal-sector roles the country was counting on to absorb its next generation of graduates.