More than half of all tasks in the workplace tasks will be carried out by machines by 2025. That's according to the World Economic Forum, which predicts that AI and robots will kill off 75 million jobs worldwide by 2022. The Swiss nonprofit also claims as many as 133 million new jobs will be created by machines in that time frame. Humans will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the'seismic shift' in how we work with machines, it said. More than half of all tasks in the workplace tasks will be carried out by machines by 2025.

PARIS (AFP) - Robots will handle 52 per cent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Monday (Sept 17). The sharp increase could also see a net gain in "new roles" for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the "seismic shift" in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated. "By 2025 more than half of all current workplace tasks will be performed by machines as opposed to 29 per cent today," a statement by the Swiss non-profit organisation said. Simultaneously, rapid changes in machines and algorithms, or computer processes that are designed to solve problems, "could create 133 million new roles in place of 75 million that will be displaced between now and 2022," the group forecast. Based near Geneva, the WEF is known for the annual pow-wow of wealthy individuals, politicians and business leaders that it organises in Davos, Switzerland.

PARIS (AFP) - Robots will handle 52 per cent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Monday (Sept 17). The sharp increase could also see a net gain in "new roles" for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the "seismic shift" in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated. "By 2025 more than half of all current workplace tasks will be performed by machines as opposed to 29 per cent today," a statement by the Swiss non-profit organisation said. Simultaneously, rapid changes in machines and algorithms, or computer processes that are designed to solve problems, "could create 133 million new roles in place of 75 million that will be displaced between now and 2022," the group forecast. Based near Geneva, the WEF is known for the annual pow-wow of wealthy individuals, politicians and business leaders that it organises in Davos, Switzerland.

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has begun, and it's going to take all of us -- government, businesses and employees -- to steer through the resulting workforce disruption. More than just helping our kids avoid jobs that machines will take over in the future -- from driving trucks and reading X-rays to picking stocks and balancing the books -- we need to look at ways of retraining the millions of adults who will be displaced by machines and get them back doing meaningful, relevant work. Change is happening so fast that waves of today's professionals -- educated, established, many in mid-career -- may see their jobs swept away with the technological tide. These white-collar workers with six-figure lifestyles, long the backbone of the knowledge economy, face what the World Economic Forum calls the fourth industrial revolution. What happens when their jobs disappear?

Picture a future where a robot suggests where to go for dinner, which meetings to take or which hotel you should stay at during an important client event. That's just an example of the impact artificial intelligence (AI) can have on the ways we work and interact with one another. When Apple first introduced Siri in 2011, it had just scratched the surface in terms of what was possible with AI, voice recognition and digital assistance. But as technology leaps forward, experts predict AI is now poised to transform business and our personal lives in more ways than we can imagine. Why this sudden barrage of predictions about AI and its potential to change the world? Taken together, these three developments created the ideal conditions for AI to evolve.