Is AI an existential threat to human jobs? | BBC News

As new roles are created and existing jobs are displaced, artificial intelligence (AI) is altering the job market, presenting opportunities and challenges.

AI is expected to replace 85 million jobs worldwide by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum’s employment report. However, the report adds that AI will also create 97 million new jobs by next year.

On this week’s AI Decoded, the tech panel underscored the need for responsible AI development to fortify government support for workers adversely affected by labour market disruptions.


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[ender]

I find so funny how these companies create the mess and then say: "the government should assume responsbility" like what???? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[JT.Pilgrim]

Industry should be the ones paying for education. Doesn’t it make sense that the ones looking for skilled and trained workers pay for that education?

[addict]

AI and robotics will eventually replace virtual all jobs. The question should be “When will AI replace our jobs?”.

[_fatmum_]

How can we make sure ai is benefiting all, not just the ceo's? "We will use it to hire you,

[kumarbanavathu]

If we depend too much on AI eventually we will become dumb.

[TheSmark]

It should be a threat to middle management, whose jobs should be done by automated systems but otherwise it's quite useless kind of like middle management.

[Cosmosisification]

Really telling that her answer to "Are employees going to get time off for contributing to the boom in production or are you going to make them work harder?" Was "Instead of the few minutes employees take to think about the issue, look it up, and wind down, we'll now have them working on harder more impactful things"

Wtf 🙃

[scottwilson]

how will ai replace a dishwasher in a restaurant then? 🤔

[deveyous]

3:00, physical jobs are also very much not secure, robotics is advancing at a crazy rate...

[ruredtovotered]

Okay nobody's working making money how do they sell their merchandise

[pierredm]

Guess if this video title has been generated by an AI… 😂

[MarkPatmos]

We need more moral people in positions of power throughout the world, sadly it seems we have the opposite.

[rameshg]

Re training to what?? By the time they learn something new, Ai would be able to automate even that. Then people will get frustrated.. Ai is a destroyer of social fabric created for hundreds of years. Creating a system to replace humans entirely is like reducing horse to just a show peace.

[davidgoodwin]

"Teaching the ai" You may not know you are doing it if "this call may be recorded for quality purposes" you are creating a training dataset that can be used by an AI someday. (So, of they say they afe not using your calls to train, they may have just not started yet. The recordings are the valuable bit)

[chempour]

So the gist of all this is no three or four day work week, even though AI dramatically increases work productivity and profits for companies. Got it.

[Cleggy]

News reader sat there saying “it’s a good thing” being replaced by AI in next few years 😂

[polyglotinc]

Yes, it IS very demoralizing to spend your last weeks on your laid-off job training your replacements as I and my fellow software developers were made to do in the great wave of "offshoring" that CEOs embraced in the USA 20 years ago.

[normadenys]

The person in pink I dont agree with at all . Training human to human will always be important. Ai will also take revenue away from a lot of people & our capitalist system depends on people spending money ? Why is no one talking about this ???

[liquiddnbva]

How's that even a question. We know already

[ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

@ 10:00 - nice example of how to avoid answering the question with a pile of words XD XD XD hilarious