Artificial intelligence will have a different effect on workers than other technologies in the workplace such as robotics, according to the report by The Brookings Institution titled “What jobs are affected by AI?” Better-educated, higher-paid workers will be the most impacted.

AI will affect some lower-skill jobs and will likely touch all occupational groups ultimately, but the report noted that AI has a distinctly white-collar bent.

Its “ability to employ statistics and learning to carry out nonroutine work means that these technologies are set to affect very different parts of the workforce than previous automation,” the report said.

The technology will also tend to affect men more than women and it will particularly affect prime-age workers between 25 and 54 years old. However, more research is needed to understand the implications of AI on specific tasks and jobs, according to the research.

“The upshot: AI will be a much greater factor in the future work lives of relatively well-paid managers, supervisors, and analysts (as well as production workers, who are increasingly well-educated in many occupations as well as heavily involved with AI on the shop floor),” according to the report.

The full report is available online.