The Ethics of AI in 2019: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Sides of Rapid AI Development

AI has revolutionised various fields. Many industries are rapidly adopting AI to help their workforce in everyday operations, and it is predicted that 1.5 million jobs in England will be replaced by the technology. While in some cases AI has worked to benefit people and relieve humans of repetitive and mundane tasks, the rapid advancement of AI has also left ethically questionable'solutions' that are worth discussing. Below, we'll be looking at various applications of AI in workforce management and beyond. We'll be covering the benefits as well asking whether AI in the workforce is ethically irresponsible with examples from the UK and around the world. In this rather fast-paced world that we live in, managers can't be in multiple places at once.