That's an excellent question.
I can maybe change the question to say, is precarious work becoming more prevalent among accountants, for example, or the accounting profession or what have you, or any regulated profession? I think the answer, at least from our perspective, is that we don't know.
Andrew brought up a bunch of great points about how things might be changing over time. We're investigating right now about how our profession is being impacted by technological change. Many different tasks that the accounting profession does right now, financial reporting, for example, are potentially at risk of being automated away with things like AI and blockchain. That's not an unrealistic thing to expect in the next 10 years.
What happens to our profession at that point? What happens to the people who are involved in those jobs right now? What do they do? Do they have the adaptability to rise up the skill curve? We're trying to find that out. We have a project called foresight, and we're launching consultations across the country to find out that exact answer.
From a policy perspective, there are even broader questions that we need to worry about here in this room. For example, if the accounting profession depends on things like financial reporting to gain critical early job skills, where is the new generation of accountants going to get that if those jobs have been automated away?
Do we become more precarious? It's very possible, but I think the answer is that we don't know.