Don’t fret the AI job ‘apocalypse’. While we can expect disruption across different industries, this will come with opportunities.
Some critics have claimed that artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has “killed the essay,” while DALL-E, an AI image generator, has been portrayed as a threat to artistic integrity.
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While ChatGPT has the potential to enhance marketing effectiveness, it can’t replace human creativity or form meaningful connections with customers like humans can.
Does the moment of imagination carry more value than the work of making something real?
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The technology’s focus on the framing of the artistic task amounts to the fetishization of the creative moment – and devalues the journey that waters the seed of an idea to its fruition.
AI is already on the payroll in many workplaces – how well human employees interact with it can depend a lot on their existing attitudes and anxieties.
Professional writers may be threatened by artificial intelligence’s ability to generate text.
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Artificial intelligence can generate text much quicker and cheaper than professional human writers. Soon, AI will have the capacity to produce text that is indistinguishable from a human writer.
If the historical data used to train an AI system disadvantages certain minority groups, the system can be swayed to follow these patterns in its own decision-making process.
Tomorrow’s good jobs will require digital skills like programming.
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In this book extract, Iram Siraj explains how to help kids get a leg up in a digital world by teaching them communication and other essential 21st century skills young.
When everyone’s out of a job, will workers unite?
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As artificial intelligence technology becomes more capable, it threatens more types of jobs – like lawyers, bureaucrats and managers. What social upheaval will happen if those people can’t find work?
Future robots will work side by side with humans, just as they do today.
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Rather than fret about how many jobs future technologies will destroy, we should focus on how to shape them so that they complement the workforce of tomorrow.