AI development is rapidly progressing, raising concerns about mass unemployment as AI may outpace the creation of new jobs. Traditional arguments about job creation in the past may not apply to the future due to the unprecedented speed of AI evolution. Tasks currently done by knowledge workers could be efficiently and cheaply automated by AI, leading companies to prioritize cost-cutting over retaining human employees. This shift could impact white-collar jobs such as legal, project management, and administrative roles more than manufacturing jobs. The impending displacement of workers prompts the need to identify new job opportunities that AI cannot perform, like healthcare, education, and physical tasks. Society faces the challenge of ensuring the equitable distribution of value created by AI-driven automation.
How has artificial intelligence (AI) become the 21st century's greatest dilemma? Microsoft AI CEO and The Coming Wave author Mustafa Suleyman weighs in!
What We Discuss with Mustafa Suleyman:
- A deep dive into the evolution of AI and understanding how AI learns and predicts.
- AI's potential impact on everything from everyday jobs to gaming to national security to solving global challenges.
- The ethical considerations of allowing AI to replace humans in the workforce — particularly as it gets more sophisticated and more capable of taking on more complex tasks.
- How AI will shape the course of the arms race between the superpowers.
- The critical need for responsible innovation, international safety standards, and cooperative governance to harness AI's benefits while mitigating its threats.
- And much more...
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