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Published 08/22/2025Published August 22, 2025last updated 08/23/2025last updated August 23, 2025 One in three German workers fear AI will take their jobs, according to a new poll. Follow DW for more stories from Germany. The wave of AI models that have since been created by various companies have improved in terms of logic, efficiency, scalability and the simultaneous processing of text, images, audio, video and other formats.
One in three Germans fears losing their job to artificial intelligence. A new YouGov survey shows 34 percent of respondents are concerned about AI replacing them at work. The poll, commissioned by German news agency dpa, surveyed over two thousand eligible voters across the country in mid-August. Urban workers and those with lower education levels expressed the greatest anxiety. A separate survey by the Ifo Institute in June found that more than a quarter of German companies expect job losses from AI.
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