February 22, 2023 AI experts suggest 39% of time currently spent on chores could be automated within the next decadePLOS ONE by a team led by Ekaterina Hertog at the University Oxford, UK, and colleagues in Japan. The authors of the present study asked 29 male and female AI experts from the UK and 36 experts from Japan to estimate how automatable 17 housework and care work tasks might be over the next decade. experts in the UK and Japan finds that in 10 years' time domestic automation could reduce the amount of time spent on current housework and care work tasks by 39%