Domestic Artificial Intelligence Delphi Survey, 2020-2021

A main aim of the study was understand how experts predict the automation of unpaid domestic work. To do so, we conducted a Delphi survey with technology experts in the UK and Japan. The data set includes answers collected from a forecasting exercise in which 65 AI experts from the UK (29 respondents) and Japan (36 respondents) were asked to estimate how automatable 17 housework and care work tasks are in the next 5 to 10 years. The experts were also asked to estimate the cost of the automations. In addition, background information, such as the experts' gender, age and field of expertise, were collected. Based on the respondents answers, the Delphi survey shows that on average 27% of time that people currently spend on doing unpaid domestic work could be automated in the next 5 years, and 39% in the next 10 years.