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UP TO eight million jobs are at risk if government fails to put in place an industrial strategy for artificial intelligence (AI), a report warned today.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that as more employers integrate AI technology into their work processes, up to 59 per cent of tasks would be hit without government intervention, leaving the low-skilled most exposed.
Back office, entry level and part-time jobs are at the highest risk of being disrupted in a so-called first wave, with women and young people the most likely to be affected as a result, the think tank said.
In the second and final part of his article MIKE SCOTT posits that if we don’t control AI while we’ve got the chance, we could be signing the death warrant for our children and grandchildren
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
PAUL W FLEMING is unequivocal that Labour’s unpreparedness and resulting ambiguity on copyright in the creative industries has to be reined in with policies that will reverse the growing abuse by Big Tech AI