Fifty-three percent of U.S. office workers worry their current skills will be outdated in fewer than five years, according to new research. The study asked 2,000 American office workers about their skills and how they wish to improve them in an evolving technological world. And results revealed nearly nine in 10 respondents said they would feel more secure in their jobs if their employer offered them training opportunities. Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of UiPath, the survey found that 78% of respondents said they would be more productive at their jobs if they could learn new skills. Eighty-six percent of those surveyed said they wish their employer offered opportunities to acquire new skills -- while 83% would like to enhance their current skills.

Exceptional times require exceptional solutions. Due to the current lockdown, the IEAI has decided to hold its May Speaker Series with Prof. Dr. Joanna Bryson virtually via Zoom. With its Speaker Series, the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence is inviting experts from all over the world to talk about ethics and governance of AI. These events serve as an important platform for sharing new research and exchanging knowledge. The May session of the TUM IEAI Speaker Series will take place on 14 May 2020, 10am (CEST), virtually via Zoom.

RIA's research editor and communications manager, Fazila Farouk, talked to Caledon FM's Annette Jahnel on her Future Perfect show about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence and its impact on white collar workers in South Africa. A major challenge she highlights is the fact that the jobs, which have traditionally allowed people entry into the middle class, are now disappearing. This is a major setback for a country ravaged by economic inequality.

Artificial intelligence (AI) are systems designed and programmed to work or act like humans. The process includes AI solving complex problems, learning, and improving themselves over time. At the rate the technology is developing, experts believe that AI will eventually mimic and perform tasks like a human. The positive applications for AI in every significant aspect of human life is beyond measure. The technology is already being deployed in medicine and used extensively in consumer electronics.

Microsoft's AI ethics committee helped craft internal Department of Defense contract policy, and G20 member nations wouldn't have passed AI ethics principles if it weren't for Japanese leadership. Published Tuesday, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) case study examines how organizations are putting AI ethics principles into practice. Ethics principles are often vaguely phrased rules that can be challenging to translate into the daily practices of an engineer or other frontline worker. CLTC research fellow Jessica Cussins Newman told VentureBeat that many AI ethics and governance debates have focused more on what is needed, but less on the practices and policies necessary to implement goals enshrined in principles. The study focuses on OpenAI's rollout of GPT-2; the adoption of AI principles by OECD and G20; and the creation of the AI, Ethics, and Effects in Engineering and Research (AETHER) committee at Microsoft.

Discussions, articles, and reports about the AI opportunity across the financial services industry continue to proliferate amid considerable hype around the technology, and for good reason: The aggregate potential cost savings for banks from AI applications is estimated at $447 billion by 2023, with the front and middle office accounting for $416 billion of that total, per Autonomous Next research seen by Business Insider Intelligence. Most banks (80%) are highly aware of the potential benefits presented by AI, per an OpenText survey of financial services professionals. In fact, many banks are planning to deploy solutions enabled by AI: 75% of respondents at banks with over $100 billion in assets say they're currently implementing AI strategies, compared with 46% at banks with less than $100 billion in assets, per a UBS Evidence Lab report seen by Business Insider Intelligence. Certain AI use cases have already gained prominence across banks' operations, with chatbots in the front office and anti-payments fraud in the middle office the most mature. Banks can use AI to transform the customer experience by enabling frictionless, 24/7 customer interactions -- but AI in banking applications isn't just limited to retail banking services.

The ethics of AI and robotics is often focused on "concerns" of various sorts, which is a typical response to new technologies. Many such concerns turn out to be rather quaint (trains are too fast for souls); some are predictably wrong when they suggest that the technology will fundamentally change humans (telephones will destroy personal communication, writing will destroy memory, video cassettes will make going out redundant); some are broadly correct but moderately relevant (digital technology will destroy industries that make photographic film, cassette tapes, or vinyl records); but some are broadly correct and deeply relevant (cars will kill children and fundamentally change the landscape). The task of an article such as this is to analyse the issues and to deflate the non-issues. Some technologies, like nuclear power, cars, or plastics, have caused ethical and political discussion and significant policy efforts to control the trajectory these technologies, usually only once some ...