Artificial intelligence support workers could be in Australia's future if the fertility rate continues to stay the same.
Recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed Australians are experiencing a near-record low fertility rate.
But 20 years on from the installation of the landmark policy, Australia’s near record-low fertility rate has failed to lift. “In terms of where fertility is right now, it’s down – it’s really a low for Australian history,” he said.“The total fertility rate is a measure of across a woman's child-bearing years – that you will have 1.6 babies if she experiences that rate right through her fertile years, and we measure that from age 15 to age 49.”
Dr Davies said other countries ahead of Australia in population growth had already started tackling these issues head on.Dr Davies said the country was already testing using artificial intelligence bots and services in the support work space, in preparation for an increasingly elderly population. "We can have a population that has spent a very long number of years being trained, and they're extremely capable."The cultural make-up of Australia could also shift over the next five years if the fertility rate stays at its current level.
"That of course caused the fertility rate to go up, but now, those policy discussions have stopped," Dr Davies said.
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