AI 'set to cause major divisions in the UK job market'

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology could be set to shake up the job scene in the UK sooner than expected, new research has found. A BT survey of over 1,500 senior UK IT decision makers found that AI, widely expected to usher in the "fourth industrial revolution", is in fact already splitting opinions in the labour market. On the positive side, a third of businesses which say they plan to introduce AI or automation technologies within the next two years believe it will create more jobs within the workplace. However, a similar amount of respondents also feared that implementing such services would lead to job losses, as robotic or automated procedures replaced trained human workers. Overall, one in four of the organisations surveyed said they were already using automation technologies, with the likes of drones, robots or autonomous vehicles proving popular.