The Ministry of Labor announced the possibility of replacing 7.5% of AI labor functions

About 7.5% of labor functions in Russia can be completely replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). This was announced on June 5 by Anton Kotyakov, Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, at the session "Labor Market 2.0: the Dictatorship of AI, the Transformation of skills and professions" at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2026).

"I'm not saying that this is a job cut. I'm saying that this is a set of functions that can be completely eliminated from the work of a particular citizen today and replaced by AI. This means that we have the opportunity to redistribute the released time of employees and increase labor productivity," Kotyakov said.

According to him, the ministry has set itself the task of forming an exhaustive list of functions for each profession by the end of this year.

"To make it clear which set of labor functions is within each profession, and how much it occupies in terms of time consumption and exhaust as the final product," Kotyakov explained.

"Our goal is not to replace humans, but to create a fast and accurate AI—based assistant."

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On May 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the replacement of low-skilled personnel with artificial intelligence is irreversible and inevitable. AI is already replacing junior staff in process automation, documentation processing, and software code development.