According to Ian Hogarth, a tech entrepreneur and AI investor, it was “inevitable” that more jobs would turn increasing automated.
He further urged businesses and individuals the need to reconsider how they work.
“There will be winners or losers on a global basis in terms of where the jobs are as a result of AI,” he said.
There have already been numerous reports of jobs that are losing their status of being ‘manual’, as companies are now increasing adopting AI tools rather than recruiting individuals. One recent instance was when BT stated “it will shed around 10,000 staff by the end of the decade as a result of the tech.”
However, some experts believe that these advancements in the job sector will also result in the emergence of new job options that do exist currently, similar to the time when the internet was newly introduced.
Validating this point is a report released by Goldman Sachs earlier this year, which noted 60% of the jobs we aware of today did not exist in 1940.
What are the Benefits?
According to Hogarth, the aim of the newly assigned taskforce was to help government “to better understand the risks associated with these frontier AI systems” and to hold
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