MR-038 Human & usage Organization scope

Workforce displacement and job-quality decline

Deployment displaces or de-skills the deployer's workers or degrades job quality, creating transition and morale risk.

Risk family: Human & usage
MIT domain: 6. Socioeconomic and Environmental
MIT subdomain: 6.2 > Increased inequality and decline in employment quality
AI type: GPAI, Agentic, Classical_ML
Scope: Organization
Source standard: MIT AI Risk Repository v4

Provenance

Source standard

MIT AI Risk Repository v4

Source frameworks

28 source framework citation keys

Abercrombie2024, Allianz2018, Anwar2024, Bengio2024, Bengio2025, Clarke2023, Coghlan2023, DSIT2023, EPIC2023, G'sell2024, Gabriel2024, Giarmoleo2024, IBM2025, Li2025, Meek2016, Nah2023, Paes2023, Perlo2025, Sharma2024, Solaiman2023, Tse2025, Uuk2025, Weidinger2021, Weidinger2022, Weidinger2023, Wirtz2020, Wirtz2022, Zeng2024

ISO/IEC references

23894 src 1, 4 | 42001 ctrl A.5.5

Framework crosswalk

Every framework item mapped to this risk. Items marked partial overlap only in part; definitions appear on hover where the source licence permits.

Sourcesframeworks that contributed to the register

ISO 420011

A.5.5 ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A A.5.5

Cross-checksframeworks mapped in to test coverage

IBM2

ibm-ai-agents-impact-on-jobs AI agents' impact on jobs
ibm-impact-on-jobs Impact on Jobs

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Part of the Deployer AI Risk Register, an open-source resource developed by MindXO. Version 1.0, 3 July 2026. Derived from the MIT AI Risk Repository (V4, December 2025) under CC BY 4.0; an independent derivative work, not endorsed by or affiliated with MIT. Sub-risk decomposition references MITRE ATLAS™ v5.6.0 (© 2021-2026 The MITRE Corporation, reproduced and distributed with permission). ISO/IEC and EU AI Act references are by number only. License: CC BY 4.0. Full attribution and licensing.