Artificial Intelligence and the labour market: Should we be worried or excited? - OECD

Last year Stephen Hawking controversially claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) will be "either the best or worst thing" for humanity. Indeed, while AI can help tackle global challenges and deliver considerable benefits, it also creates new challenges and questions, including for privacy, governance, research and work. To discuss these challenges and opportunities, as well as their policy implications, the OECD hosted the conference "AI: Intelligent machines, smart policies" in Paris on 26-27 October 2017, bringing together policymakers, representatives of civil society and AI experts from industry and academia. One of the sessions focused on jobs and skills. AI matches or exceeds human performance in a growing number of domains, and several tasks traditionally performed by humans have already been taken over by robots and algorithms.