Needed: More Worker Involvement In Artificial Intelligence Initiatives

Despite all the panicky warnings seen in the mainstream media, AI will not be taking over and automating peoples' jobs. AI will be replacing manual tasks, not job categories. However, something very important is missing from the picture: the involvement of the employees who will be charged with making AI and data-driven enterprises work. AI is only ramping up demand for the human talent needed to guide AI systems to engage in tasks relevant to the business, monitor and maintain the fairness and actionability of AI decisions, and to build, program, update, and ultimately retire these systems. That's one of the takeaways of Deloitte's latest research on the state of AI, which finds a lack of employee input into the ways AI will be deployed and what it will deliver.