How Artificial Intelligence looks set to affect the workplace

I've no doubt you'll be familiar with all of the talk regarding Artificial Intelligence's accelerating capabilities, impending arrival, and possible widespread disruption to life as we currently now know it. While some leaders are voicing their concerns on this new Artificial Intelligence era, claiming we're doomed for a'rise of the robots' type scenario where human existence is threatened. Other, more rational thought leaders – while recognising the threats AI poses, by advocating the measures required to safe guard against them – are however focussing on the positives of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the huge benefits it can offer. No area is perhaps more prime for an AI overhaul than the workplace. So much so, that AI along with other key ingredients such as The Internet of Things has led to the generally accepted arrival of the'Fourth Industrial Revolution'.