Will AI effect jobs
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke to Elon Musk at the AI Summit this week. They spoke about the advantages and dangers of AI and how it could make jobs redundant.
Sunak has said that AI will not pose a risk to jobs as there will be education reforms which will boost skills and AI will be used as a “co-pilot” to employees.
Professor Hadi Larijani, director of the Smart Technology Centre and professor of Intelligent Systems and Networks at GCU said: “Well I think you should take it with a pinch of salt, I think it will have an impact on jobs but some of his predictions don’t work out correctly.
“AI has been around for over 50, 60 years, it hasn’t really made a lot of change up until about 2010.
“In 2010, there was a very successful team in Canada, Jeff Hinton and his team and colleagues there looked at deep learning and deep learning was the first app kind of way of checking to see how good AI could be and the success of that methodology was a start of a big revolution in AI and what it meant is that we could search for pictures much quicker than before.”
He also says that AI is still quite far away from being at human level.
Professor Larijani added: “I think the key thing is, Musk obviously is an entrepreneur, he’s a very successful businessman, he’s made a lot of contributions into industry and in technology. But regarding employment, I think it’s a complex kind of impact.
“So, the disruption will depend on the job that we’re looking at. It’s very difficult to predict the whole thing, but I think the main takeaway from this is that repetitive jobs will be impacted.”
The prime minister addressed the anxiety people had over the AI technology but he said it would only enhance productivity.
He also suggested that it would be a good idea to improve technical training so that people could make the most of the benefits of AI.
After the summit there is now an international consensus to take on shared responsibility of AI.
