누가 낙관하고, 누가 비관하는가?: 지능정보기술로 인한 일자리 대체에 대한 개인들의 위험 판단

This study aims to understand individuals’ perceptions of the personal and social risk of job loss caused by intelligent information technology. In addition, the purpose of this study was to examine the aspects in which new risks differentiate individuals by identifying what changes risk judgments. For this purpose, the research model is set as follows <Figure1>. The main analysis results and implications are as follows. First, it was confirmed that the emotional aspect has a major influence on personal job risk perception, and the effect of cognitive factors can also be involved in social job risk perception. In other words, it means that the mechanisms that change individual job risk perceptions and social job risk perceptions are different. Second, the key factor influencing the possibility of belonging to the optimistic group compared to the non-bias group was the individual’s subjective judgment about IIT. The factor that increases the possibility of belonging to a pessimistic group compared to the same group is the individual's social status. It was confirmed that individuals belonging to a social status that may be more vulnerable to job risks may be relatively optimistic. Third, it was confirmed that the effects of emotional and cognitive aspects on risk judgment were different. Only the emotional factor had an effect on the individual/social job risk perception itself, and only the cognitive aspect had a significant effect on the group decision. The hypotheses verification results are shown in <Table 1> below. This study expanded the subject to risks of job loss rather than the optimistic bias related to health and diseases, which has been mainly dealt with in previous studies. In addition, In addition, it is meaningful in that the empirical study was conducted through data considering various contexts of individuals rather than laboratory conditions. As a result, it was possible to capture how the new risk caused by intelligent information technology will differentiate individuals by showing that optimism about the risk of job replacement can vary depending on the individual's social status and subjective judgment.