IMF Urges AI Worker Support

What happened

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged governments to step up support for workers. This directive follows analysis demonstrating that artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting wages and employment in certain areas. This action introduces a new governmental obligation to address labour market displacement caused by AI, altering the previous condition of unaddressed economic shifts.

Why it matters

This development increases the oversight burden on national economic policy makers and labour departments to monitor and respond to AI-driven employment and wage shifts. It also tightens the dependency on government-led social safety nets and retraining programmes to mitigate economic disruption. The absence of explicit mechanisms for AI impact assessment at a governmental level reduces visibility into the scale and scope of required interventions, raising due diligence requirements for resource allocation.