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AI to threaten 22.8 percent of employed people in Sri Lanka
By Huzefa Aliasger
Colombo, Jan. 20 (Daily Mirror) - A new study by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) shows that about 1.83 million Sri Lankan workers, or roughly 22.8 percent of the employed population, are in occupations that could be exposed to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), which means that AI has some influence over job security for these workers.
According to the IPS “Gen AI is a more advanced AI that is enabled to create new content, rather than analyzing existing data, which might influence various occupations.”
The study which was released in 2025 and conducted by using Sri Lanka’s 2023 Labour Force Survey data reveals that of those estimated to be exposed to GenAI, more than 187,000 workers are in occupations with the highest potential exposure to GenAI. Among these, the vast majority, 179,290 workers are clerks or clerical support workers, making this group one of the most exposed to potential task disruption by the technology.
Additionally nearly 142,000 workers are in roles with increasing exposure to GenAI, including professionals, technical and associate professionals, and clerical workers.
The report also says that a large amount of the workforce remain largely unexposed to GenAI. These include workers in elementary occupations (nearly 1.83 million), skilled agricultural and forestry workers (about 1.21 million), and craft and related tradespersons (about 1.10 million). Within these groups, exposure is minimal or non-existent.
IPS says that researchers identified a significant gap between potential exposure to GenAI and actual digital readiness in workplaces. Of the 1.83 million potentially exposed workers, only 480,543, or about 26.3 percent are both digitally literate and employed in workplaces with computers and internet facilities.
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