Experts estimate for the next decade, that almost 40% of housework and supermarket shopping will be done automatically through artificial intelligence. According to research, 39% of the time spent today on any household work can be done by smart devices.

Most jobs can be done automatically, with the most difficult of these being child care. Researchers led by Ekaterina Hertog of the University of Oxford, who made a related scientific publication in the journal PLoS One, asked 29 British and 36 Japanese experts in artificial intelligence to assess the extent to which it is possible to automatically carry out 17 essential tasks of house, within the next decade.

42% of British analysts believe that artificial intelligence will replace more human work. The corresponding percentage of Japanese is 36%. Male British experts tend to be more pessimistic than women about the possibility of automating household tasks, which is in line with the trend that previous studies have shown that men are more pessimistic about technology than women.

Similarly, in Japan, female specialists are significantly more optimistic than male specialists in their country, because in Japanese households there is a greater inequality in the distribution of work between the two sexes.

Previous research has shown that people between the ages of 15 and 64 spend around 43% of their working and study time on unpaid household chores such as cooking, cleaning, caring for other people. In Britain, men spend a greater proportion of their time in corresponding jobs than women, while in Japan only 18% of their time. Hence the greater inequality between the two sexes in Japan, and women's expectation that artificial intelligence will redeem them