A staggering 83 million jobs will be nixed globally in the next five years as bank and postal clerks, cashiers, secretaries and other roles are pushed out by new technology, World Economic Forum (WEF) analysts predict.
At the same time, 69 million jobs will be created in emerging industries, such as artificial intelligence ( AI ), sustainability, and robotics. Still, that’s a net loss of 14 million jobs, or 2 percent of the current global workforce.
The WEF study comes as IBM announced plans to automate 7,800 back-office jobs overt the next five years, and as Google’s AI maven Geoffrey Hinton […]
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