RadVid-19, a program which identifies lung injuries through artificial intelligence, is used at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. RadVid-19, a program which identifies lung injuries through artificial intelligence, is used at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The tasks resemble those that lawyers, doctors, financial analysts, and management consultants solve for a living. One asks for a diagnosis of a six-year-old patient based on nine pieces of multimedia evidence; another asks for legal advice on a musician's estate; a third calls for a valuation of part of a healthcare technology company. Mercor, which claims to supply "expert data" to every top AI company, says that it spent more than $500,000 to develop 200 tasks that test whether AIs can perform knowledge work with high economic value across law, medicine, finance, and management consulting.

The researchers also found that employment is growing in professions where AI is used to augment workers rather than automate their tasks. For instance, workers who use AI to learn about topics or validate their work once completed seem less susceptible to being replaced than those who are asked to delegate entire tasks to AI. For Brynjolfsson, this is a sign that AI, if deployed shrewdly, could lead to positive economic results. "I think it's fair to say that technology has always been destroying jobs and always been creating jobs," he says. "If we want to create not just higher productivity, but widely shared prosperity, using AI to augment and not just automate work is a good direction to go." Brynjolfsson and Chandar say they used AI throughout the process of writing their aforementioned paper: to write code in order to process and clean the ADP data; to provide references with which they could check their claims; and "help with some of the writing," Chandar says.

AI and robots mean less management required. Managers, not lower-level employees, are seeing their ranks diminished with the onset of artificial intelligence and robots, a new study out of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School finds. That's because as AI and robotics expands within a business, managers can oversee a wider breadth of operations. In a recent podcast discussion, Lynn Wu, professor at The Wharton School and AIB Affiliated Faculty, points out that "contrary to the popular notion that robots will replace human labor, we find robot-adopting firms employed more people over time. Any displacement of labor came from firms that did not adopt robots. These non-adopting firms actually lost their competitiveness -- and they had to lay off workers."

Will artificial intelligence really take away our jobs? How will it resolve current big data dilemmas? Should organizations invest in machine learning to thwart cyber-hackers? These and other critical enterprise questions are addressed in a recent report from PwC, titled "2018 AI Predictions: 8 Insights to Shape Business Strategy." In addition to technology shifts, the predictions explore the potential societal impact of AI.

Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe recently signed a law allowing robots to deliver goods in the state, according to Engadget. Starting July 1, Virginia citizens could see robots using the streets to deliver purchases to local residents. The bots are running autonomously, but Virginia is requiring Starship Technologies, the developers, to monitor them remotely. They also must have a max speed of 10mph and cannot weigh more than 50lbs, delivery included. Virginia is allowing local councils to put regulations on the bots as well.

Despite job automation threatening to cause chaos in the labour market, a group of Sri Lankan Ministers of Parliament have said that their jobs are safe in the knowledge that stupidity cannot be automated. Bandula Gunawardena said, "Sri Lankans were the first to coin the term artificial intelligence after they realised that the people they elected to run the country lacked real intelligence. I am glad to have been cited as a case study of this. Recently there has been a lot of talk about job automation. While certain sectors of the civil service will be automated we are confident it will be limited to skilled areas which involve a lot of processing power and use of high-level thinking."