text: more than doubled, with 50% of respondents reporting AI usage in at least one business area. Manufacturing and technology sectors have the highest AI usage among executives. AI and automation in the manufacturing industry present opportunities for workers to transition from repetitive tasks to more dynamic, rewarding roles. By investing in training, we can help people succeed in this new landscape. Automation in manufacturing leads to increased productivity, faster production speeds, and reduced human error, ultimately benefiting businesses and the economy as a whole.                    > Entering new AgentExecutor chain...    ```json    {        "action": "DuckDuckGo Search",        "action_input": "impact of automation and AI on employment in manufacturing"    }    ```    Observation: The Effects of Automation on Jobs . Automation has taken the manufacturing industry by storm. Even in the years prior to the pandemic, many people worried about the effect of automation on the jobs of tomorrow. With a sharp increase in the use of robotics in the manufacturing industry, there is valid concern about how the future workforce will ... Since 2000, robots and automation systems have slowly phased out many manufacturing jobs â€” 1.7 million of them. On the flip side, it's predicted that AI will create 97 million new jobs by 2025. Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Replace Jobs? AI is and will continue to replace some jobs. As AI continues to improve, more and more current jobs will be threatened by automation. But AI presents opportunities as well and will create new jobs and different kinds of organizations. For the past three years, we have defined AI high performers as those organizations that respondents say are seeing the biggest bottom-line impact from AI adoptionâ€”that is, 20 percent or more of EBIT from AI use. The proportion