SOFIA (Bulgaria), October 23 (SeeNews) - Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to create new jobs and affect industries in the future while changing the skillsets required from potential employees, industry representatives said on Wednesday. Rather than posing a risk to employment in the future, AI offers a set of opportunities as it will expand industries and provide employees with occupational options not existing today, AI industry representatives said during a conference in Sofia hosted by Hewlett Packard Enterprise operated by Selectium. "It is not about losing or gaining – it is about shifting skills. There will be some industries or some sectors that will suffer, however it is not a threat but an opportunity," Jim Neenan, a Business Solution Architect at U.S.-headquartered cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology company VMware, said. "It will be a fatigue process, but it definitely shouldn't cross our hands," Neenan added.