Will AI create or displace jobs?

A new report by PwC found that artificial intelligence (AI) won't displace jobs. Instead, it will create them! According to the report, 7.2 million jobs could be created over the next 20 years, a slight edge on the 7 million job losses also predicted in the report. "Artificial intelligence is a relatively new technology, and this unfamiliarity can cause people to feel uncertain about it," said Adam Maskatiya, General Manager, UK & Ireland at Kaspersky Lab. "There is a massive wealth of opportunity with the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in terms of the jobs it will create, but there is also the need to ask some searching questions – and to consider some of the operational difficulties of AI in use, as well as the ethical and legal issues as to who bears responsibility for the actions of an autonomous or intelligent machine."