Combining RPA & AI for Business Success - InsideSAP

All these great minds of the computing world warned against the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and they have a point. The implications of any new technology need to be considered carefully -- especially ones that, according to Stephen Hawking, could make humanity extinct.¹ In addition to envisioning new ways to make it truly useful, societal pressures that come with any new technological advancement must be addressed. Apart from the sci-fi scenario that evil robots will take over the Earth, the biggest fear that people express about AI and its related technologies is that their jobs will be replaced by it. This is not totally unfounded, as a 2019 McKinsey Global Institute Report estimates that that "about half of all the activities people are paid to do in the world's workforce could potentially be automated by adapting currently demonstrated technologies."²