AI at work: No mass unemployment but change ahead, says Daniel Susskind

AI at work: No mass unemployment but change ahead, says Daniel Susskind

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not going to result in widespread unemployment but will cause a slow transformation of our lives at work, according to Oxford University economist and author Dr Daniel Susskind.

Speaking at the Advanced World conference last week, Susskind argued that automation would change work rather than render it a thing of the past.

“There’s this AI fallacy where we believe the only way machines can be intelligent is through replicating human skills,” he said, during a keynote entitled A World Without Work.“The reality is most jobs can’t be fully automated. According to McKinsey, just 5% of occupations can […]

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