The emerging jobs being created in artificial intelligence in Australia

The number of jobs in the merging industry around artificial intelligence (AI), including work on self-driving cars and smart digital assistants, is growing in Australia but so is interest from job seekers. Analysis by global job site Indeed shows rapid growth in the number of AI-related jobs over the past 18 months with that growth matched by increasing job seeker interest. Indeed says the number of AI-related job posts has doubled since 2015 and, at the same time, search activity by job seekers has tripled. "It is true that new technologies and innovation will destroy some jobs and we have seen this for example in automated areas of manufacturing," says Callam Pickering, Indeed's APAC Economist. "But at the same time, new AI technologies will increasingly require highly-skilled workers who can develop and maintain complex systems and applications."