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GenAI and Upskilling – Look at how employee roles and skills must evolve
Generative AI presents both benefits and challenges to organizations. BCG’s GenAI Workforce Productivity Diagnostic helps companies define a clear path to successfully implement this transformative technology. Key Takeaways While the value and transformation potential of GenAI are real, so too are the technical, implementation, and change management challenges. BCG’s GenAI Workforce Productivity Diagnostic helps companies … Continue reading
AI Capabilities and Risks in UK – A discussion paper
This discussion paper was written to inform discussions at the AI Safety Summit 2023. It does not represent government policy. Generative AI development has the potential to bring significant global benefits. But it will also increase risks to safety and security by enhancing threat actor capabilities and increasing the effectiveness of attacks. • The development … Continue reading
AI Digital Skills in UK – Microsoft to train 1 million people
Microsoft is expanding its UK skilling program, Get On, aiming to equip 1 million people with the skills needed to thrive in the AI-enabled economy. Expanding Microsoft’s skills commitment Speaking at Microsoft’s Envision UK event, Clare Barclay, CEO of Microsoft UK, said: “The UK has a very real opportunity to be a leader in the … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Tasks will be augmented, not automated
Despite technological strides forward, this year’s Future of Jobs report suggests that businesses are becoming more sceptical about the potential for artificial intelligence to fully automate work tasks. Executives estimate that 34% of tasks are already automated – just one percentage point ahead of the figure reported in the Future of Jobs Report 2020. Future … Continue reading
AI and Jobs? Workers seem more hopeful than concerned about the impact of AI
Which U.S. workers are more exposed to AI on their jobs? In 2022, 19% of U.S. workers were in jobs in which the most important activities may be replaced or assisted by artificial intelligence tools. Higher-paid workers, as well as those who are women, Asian or college-educated, are more exposed to AI than other groups. … Continue reading
AI in the Workplace – What do workers and employers think and what to do about it
In 2022, the OECD gathered data on the impact of AI on people and their workplaces, in the manufacturing and finance sectors of seven countries. The findings show that AI use at work can lead to positive outcomes for workers around job satisfaction, health and wages. Yet there are also risks around privacy, work intensity … Continue reading
AI and Jobs – No clear relationship but AI is linked to higher employment growth in IT occupations
Recent years have seen impressive advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and this has stoked renewed concern about the impact of technological progress on the labour market, including on worker displacement. This paper looks at the possible links between AI and employment in a cross-country context. It adapts the AI occupational impact measure developed by Felten, … Continue reading
AI Skills – 150 000 AI-related job postings in the US in 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping economies and societies. While often in their infancy and with much potential to be fulfilled, AI technologies promise to overhaul production by improving efficiency, reducing costs, multiplying product and service offerings, and supporting decision-making, among others. As AI permeates economies and societies, it nevertheless raises questions and fuels anxieties, including … Continue reading
Global views on AI and Job Automation – Mixed survey finds
As artificial intelligence (AI) plays a growing role in the everyday lives of people around the world, views on AI’s impact on society are mixed across 20 global publics, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. A median of about half (53%) say the development of artificial intelligence, or the use of computer systems … Continue reading
New Technologies and Artificial intelligence – How they are transforming tasks : analyzing 170 million online job postings
Technology has long brought change to the nature of work, and to the skills required for the most desirable, best-paying jobs. But until recently, new technology – even robotics – has tended to mean automating repetitive or arduous tasks, while often leading to new types of tasks for workers. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) … Continue reading
Future of Work and Anxiety in Canada – Who is fearful of automation ?
Who is fearful of automation and what do they want politicians to do about it? This paper finds a correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist and nativist views—but also that Canadians favour traditional government policy approaches to job disruption, such as retraining, more than radical measures such as reducing immigration. … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – It will challenge economists in coming years
After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a ‘race against the robots’ and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This paper describes the nature and context of these … Continue reading
The Future of Work – Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts on learning, teaching, and education
At the November 2017 Gothenburg Summit, the Commission presented the Communication ‘Strengthening European Identity through Education and Culture’, that set out a vision for a European Education Area and announced a dedicated Digital Education Action Plan, which aims to foster digital skills and competences for all citizens. The Action Plan focuses on implementation and the … Continue reading
AI, Robotics and Automation Technologies – The impact on professions and society and the role of HR and L&D professionals
What is the impact of AI, robotics, and automation technologies on relevant professions and society? There are potentially significant social impacts related to the increasing work-related use of AI, advanced robots and cognitive computing – one of which is on employment levels. However, opinion is divided on this topic, ranging from those who predict large-scale … Continue reading
AI impact on Jobs in US – Brookings survey finds worries
To examine attitudes towards AI, researchers at the Brookings Institution undertook an online national survey of 1,535 adult Internet users between May 9 and May 11, 2018. There has been considerable controversy over the workforce impact of AI and whether it will create new jobs or reduce the number of jobs. When asked about the … Continue reading
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