I am often asked about artificial intelligence and the future of work. My answer is that A.I. will change 100% of current jobs. It will change the job of a factory worker. It will change the job of a software developer, of a customer service agent, of a professional driver. And it will change my job as the CEO of one of the biggest technology companies in the world.

IBM's Chair, CEO and President Ginni Rometty has a powerful message for workers and employers in all strata of society: The Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway and it is shaping up to be one of the most significant challenges and opportunities of our lifetime. We are already seeing jobs, policies, industries and entire economies shifting as our digital and physical worlds merge. According to the World Economic Forum, the value of digital transformations in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is estimated at $100 trillion in the next 10 years alone, across all sectors, industries and geographies. "As a result, we face an imminent and profound transformation of the workforce over the next five to 10 years as analytics and artificial intelligence change job roles at companies in all industries," Rometty said while giving a keynote address at the CNBC's At Work Talent & HR: Building the Workforce of the Future Conference in New York on Tuesday, April 2. In February, the executive was appointed to Trump's American Workforce Policy Advisory Board along with 24 other leaders. While only a minority of jobs will disappear, the majority of roles that remain will require people to work with the aid of analytics and some form of AI and this will require skills training on a large scale, Rometty said.

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Salesforce and IBM announced an expansion of their strategic partnership on Friday, with the firms combining the power of IBM Cloud and Watson services with Salesforce Quip and Salesforce Service Cloud Einstein, the firms announced in a joint press release Friday. Two top tech firms like Salesforce and IBM connecting their artificial intelligence (AI) platforms reinforces the growing value of AI and big data in the enterprise. AI, especially, is taking center stage as one of the battleground technologies for business, and this is a clear example of two CEOs making a move to reinforce that with their partnership. In the release, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said that the combination of Watson and Einstein will "help enterprises make smarter business decisions." Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff echoed this sentiment, saying in the release that the combo will "deliver even more innovation to empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way, leveraging the power of the cloud and AI." SEE: IT leader's guide to the future of artificial intelligence (Tech Pro Research) Specifically, the Watson/Einstein combination will provide actionable next steps in a given process, the release said.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: "Look, we really think this is about man and machine, not man vs. machine." He now runs his own firm, Evans Strategic Communications LLC.) CLOUD WARS -- As AI enters the mainstream of not only consumer consciousness but also business strategy, you could make a pretty good case that IBM and its Watson brand have been by far the primary drivers behind this profound phenomenon. Unless Watson and AI generating huge gobs of new revenue for IBM, who cares? Well, one person who cares very deeply about the rapid emergence of AI is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella--and if you're wondering about Nadella's chops in AI, consider that as he's boosted Microsoft's market cap by $250 billion during his 3-1/2 years as CEO, he's also created a global AI team of more than 5,000 computer scientists and engineers. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that any significant business--whether inside or outside the tech industry--that's not aggressively evaluating the potential impacts of AI on its customers and industry is being short-sighted at best and profoundly foolish at worst.

IBM has partnered marketing cloud specialist Salesforce to deliver a unified AI- powered solution, bringing together IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein. Both AI platforms will be deployed using a new integration practice formed by Bluewolf, an IBM company. As part of the partnership, IBM will deploy Salesforce Service Cloud across the company to transform its global product support services and gain a single, unified view of every IBM customer. Bluewolf's new Solution Accelerators for AI integration will develop new industry-specific functions used by enterprise clients to fast-track adoption of cognitive applications seamlessly. It's been a few weeks since IBM CEO Ginni Rometty attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The IBM CEO has been at Big Blue for more than three decades, we wanted to know how she keeps engaged, about IBM's future with artificial intelligence and what career tips she might have for young women interested in technology. These are questions she answered via email, just prior to the opening of HIMSS17, where she delivered the keynote. Q: You've been at IBM since 1981. How do you keep it fresh? A: As IBM has done throughout its 105-year history, we remain dedicated to leading the world into a more prosperous and progressive future.

As AI continues its spread into business, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty laid out three ethical principles for responsible AI development in a panel discussion on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. "We call them principles for AI, for a cognitive era, to guide what you do," Rometty said. "It's frankly our responsibility as leaders out there that are putting these technologies out to guide them in their entry into the world in a safe way." IBM has placed its big bet on the idea that data will become the basis of competitive advantage for companies worldwide, and will require AI tools that reason and learn to interpret it and gain insights, Rometty said. With AI, "the basis is that we would be so overwhelmed with information that it would be impossible for us to internalize it, and use it to what its full value could be," Rometty said.

With great power comes great responsibility: That was the gist of a set of principles for artificial intelligence development laid forth by IBM Corp. Chief Executive Ginni Rometty on Tuesday. Rometty (above) has made AI, or what IBM calls cognitive computing, the centerpiece of the tech giant's attempt to recharge its growth. In a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, she made the mostly optimistic case that AI, intelligently used, will be the foundation of the fourth industrial revolution. On the panel with Rometty were Ron Gutman, an entrepreneur whose relation to AI is based mostly on how it will transform healthcare, along with Joi Ito, head of MIT's media lab and leading spokesperson on AI ethics, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. But Rometty made perhaps the biggest splash, issuing a set of three principles that she called "Principles for the Cognitive Era."

IBM Hosted a Big Party for Watson With its CEO as the Star By Darryl K. Taft Posted 2016-10-28 Print NEWS ANALYSIS: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty keynoted the company's World of Watson conference in Las Vegas and drove home that Watson is the AI platform for business. LAS VEGAS–IBM held a big party for its Watson cognitive computing technology here this week in the form of the IBM World of Watson (IBM WoW) 2016 conference. Originally known as IBM Insight, the company augmented the name of the event to focus on Watson and the importance of cognitive technology to the company's future. Indeed, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said hundreds of millions of users interact with Watson-powered systems today and, by the end of next year, she expects there to be more than 1 billion Watson users. If nothing else, the World of Watson event was a paean to the continuing adoption of Watson across a broad variety of industries and technology areas, including medicine and health care, financial services, retail, manufacturing and travel, as well as technology areas such as cloud computing, the internet of things (IoT), software development and more.