Impact of generative AI on skills in the workplace

Occupations with more cognitive and less physical skills, that have higher required skill levels are more likely to be impacted as generative AI systems are implemented.

The primary impact on the training system will be at the university level as occupations that generally require university qualifications typically have greater exposure to generative AI.

Within the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system, higher level qualifications are more likely to face disruption.

Of the three training packages within finance, technology and business, the greatest exposure to GAI was faced in the Financial Services and Business Services training packages followed by ICT. This is due to the presence of some occupations in ICT which require a combination of more physical skills with cognitive skills. However, the exposure in many qualifications in the ICT training package was still found to be above average.