AI and the future of our workforce – onefourzero Group – Medium

In previous weeks, you have read on onefourzero's blogs that artificial intelligence is everywhere -- homes, healthcare, servicesand so on. Indeed, the most frequent news stories about AI and robotics is how they are going to take all jobs away. However, a recent report by the World Economic Forum stated that AI would actually create many more jobs than it destroys, by the rather large margin of 58 million. But what will these new jobs be? onefourzero investigates… Admittedly, emerging automated technology such as AI is predicted to eliminate 75 million jobs, starting by those with repetitive tasks that are easy to programme. While this may be a scary notion, we must look at the positive side. AI will also create an estimated 133 million new roles -- some due to the growing trend of people living and working more flexibly, either part-time or as freelancers for example.