The Future Of Work: How Sociology Can Enhance AI Integration In Economic Sectors

Challoumis, Constantinos (2025): The Future Of Work: How Sociology Can Enhance AI Integration In Economic Sectors.

Abstract

What will the future look like? A question with many answers, influenced by wider social events and as yet undecided events, but transforming as time passes. Predicting the future is complex, but certainly conversing about it and how current events shape the future is essential. The future of the labor market and how people undertake work is currently shaped by and linked to increased sophistication and widespread deployment of ICT applications across many different sectors. The trend towards increased technology being used in many different economic sectors will no doubt continue, so that sociology will have an important role to play in how it can work with other disciplines to achieve the maximum benefit. Currently, many advances in making better use of the data already within commercial information systems are improving predictive intelligence and self-driven improvements within existing information system architectures. This implies that human input—while still important in advanced decision making, will become less labor-intensive. AI technologies will be used to graphically represent the data, enabling 'fair' debate with AI over the effectiveness of the AI models.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: future, sociology, AI integration. Economic sectors, sociology
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook; Z - Other Special Topics > Z0 - General; Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology

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